This is a toy program that we want to monkeypatch. It really doesn’t do anything except call socket().

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A well-known set of vulnerable programs to practice exploitation can be found at gera’s insecure programming. I will go through several challenges over the coming weeks. Ideally, I want to complete them all. Let’s see how far I can go. In this post I will go over how to solve format string #1 (fs1.c).

1. Run metasploit: