[plaidctf20] Emojidb
Emojidb was a 250 points pwn challenge during the PlaidCTF 2020. Unfortunately I didn't solve this challenge in time, which was mostly due to the fact it communicated only in emojis. To be specific, all data send and received was UTF-8 encoded . What's so difficult about that you ask? Read on and find out about my stupid journey through character encoding. Oh, and also: The bug which had to be exploited was super cool and it took a nice journey through glibc to find out why it happened.
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