The Spoony Blog

This past weekend, I participated in my first ever DEF CON Capture the Flag Qualifying Tournament. CTF is a contest at the aforementioned annual hacker conference where the goal is to keep your team’s network services (which are on a closed intranet) up and running for as much as possible, while simultaneously trying to bring […]

Last week, I mentioned in passing that Windows allows the full range of 32-bit exit codes. That’s true, but only if you directly call ExitProcess() (or its less-friendly kin TerminateProcess()). If you just call exit() (or return from main(), which implicitly calls exit()), then like in the *NIX world, you only get the bottom 8 […]

Last time, we saw how we can capture a process’ core dump. The astute reader will have noticed that we seem to be pulling bits out of thin air: We’ve got a 32-bit exit status, and yet we seem to getting two more useful bits of information out of it from the WIFSIGNALED() and WCOREDUMP() […]