Fascinating Confusion

Gloater was a pwn challenge with an insane difficulty rating during the Cyber Apocalypse 2024. While it had the most difficult rating, it wasn't the pwn with the least solves. But it was still an interesting challenge with many options to gain code execution. This writeup certainly presents a ... let's call it special way ;)

Deathnote was a pwn challenge with medium difficulty during the Hackthebox Cyber Apocalypse 2024. The challenge presented was a typical heap challenge allowing us to create, delete, and remove chunks. The LIBC given was Ubuntu GLIBC 2.35-0ubuntu3.6 . The solution involves getting a libc leak and calling a special helper function.