Software Security Exploitation: Stack, Heap, and ROP Attacks
Learn how real-world exploits work and how to break modern defenses
Software Security Exploitation: Stack, Heap, and ROP Attacks free download
Learn how real-world exploits work and how to break modern defenses
Learn how real-world software exploits work — and how attackers use them to break into systems, bypass protections, and take control.
In this hands-on course, you’ll go beyond theory and gain the skills to understand, analyze, and craft memory corruption exploits. You'll explore techniques like stack overflows, Return-Oriented Programming (ROP), and heap spraying — all using real C code, modern Linux targets, and guided labs that connect every concept to practice.
We break down complex topics using intuitive explanations, visual examples, and real-world analogies to make advanced exploitation techniques both accessible and actionable.
Whether you're a security researcher, defender, reverse engineer, or developer looking to level up your exploitation skills, investigate the "how" behind critical CVEs, or take your first steps into the security world — this course will equip you with the deep understanding and attacker mindset needed to analyze vulnerabilities and understand how modern mitigations are bypassed.
What You’ll Learn:
How attack vectors and chains unfold — and how they map to real-world exploits
How ROP chains are constructed from gadgets to bypass NX-bit
How to manipulate heap layout and corrupt function pointers
The purpose and limitations of modern mitigations like ASLR, NX, canaries, and CFI
How stack overflows work and how they’re used to hijack execution
How to think like an attacker — and defend like one too
Hands-On Labs Include:
Writing and exploiting a classic stack overflow
Using GDB and Python to craft real payloads
Finding ROP gadgets with ROPgadget and analyzing their purpose
Performing heap spraying and overriding function pointers in a custom binary
