Welcome to formatStringExploiter’s documentation!

formatStringExploiter is a python module for simplifying the often time complex and confusing exploitation of format strings.

Getting Started

• About formatStringExploiter
  • Introduction to formatStringExploiter
  • Supported Architectures
• Installing formatStringExploiter
  • pypi
• Quickstart
  • Concept
  • Instantiating a Class
  • Reading
  • Writing
• formatStringExploiter package
  • formatStringExploiter.FormatString module
• Gotchas
  • Hanging on Write
  • Be Careful About Your exec_fmt Function!!
• Examples
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