Review of Stack-Based Binary Exploitation Techniques

Binary exploitation focuses on making use of flaws and oversights in the program design to accomplish a task that the program wasn't intended toward. Some flaws are fairly common programming errors, while some are not so obvious and give rise to complex exploitation techniques. This paper addresses some of the techniques extensively used to test the vulnerabilities and security holes in the system, and their mitigation techniques. The goal of these techniques is to hijack the target binary's execution flow.