In this section, we will look at the most critical components required for exploitation. We will discuss a wide variety of registers supported in different architectures. We will also discuss the Extended Instruction Pointer (EIP) and Extended Stack Pointer (ESP), and their importance in writing exploits. We will also look at No Operation (NOP) and Jump (JMP) instructions and their significance in writing exploits for various software.
The absolute basics of exploitation
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