Everything about Return-oriented programming

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Return-oriented programmingA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: American FilmThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Go sideways: Stack buffer overflowA closely related topic
4. Go sideways: Blind return-oriented programmingA closely related topic

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📚 Books worth reading

• American FilmAmerican Film Institute · 1975
• Bulletin of the United States Army Medical DepartmentUnited States. Army Medical Service. · 1944
• Cartesian meditationsEdmund Husserl, Dorion Cairns · 1960
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
• The Human Planet · 2009
• THE ENEMY INSIDE · 2013

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