http://shivasurya.me/categories/overflow/Recent content in Overflow on ShivasuryaHugoen-usSun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000http://shivasurya.me/2022/12/04/binary-search-overflow/Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000http://shivasurya.me/2022/12/04/binary-search-overflow/<p>Recently I was playing with overflow vulnerabilities help of <code>exploit.education</code> exercise which mostly covers basic heap, buffer overflow, use-after-free vulnerability patterns in a contained <code>qemu</code> based environment. However, I was searching for Integer overflow patterns and articles around it &ldquo;how to succesfully convert a integer overflow into a remote code execution&rdquo;. While reading through the vulnerability reports, I started exploring code snippets relevant to integer overflow and this blog post <a href="https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html"><code>Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken</code></a> caught my eyes.</p>