Asciinema:

https://asciinema.org/a/RHqaovtOFoKfJUEzVsGSWSK1E

Resources used:

• Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S0aBV-Waeo
• Daniel Slater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ8IwyhqzD4
• Zillion: http://www.safemode.org/files/zillion/shellcode/doc/Writing_shellcode.html
• Hacking, the art of exploitation by Jon Erickson (book)
• All files in this repo

Findings:

These are things I learned through trial and error

• does not work on zsh
• setuid binary doesn't transfer root (this was tried on arch linux)
• does not work with python (python pads NOP's with 0x2C ?!)
• gdb does not initially calculate correct addresses