Uncontrolled format string: Revision history

30 April 2025

• curprev 06:2206:22, 30 April 2025 Sbmeirow talk contribs m 12,260 bytes −15 Reverted edit by 2402:8100:27A0:F555:D411:D1FF:FE3B:1F32 (talk) to last version by InternetArchiveBot undo Tag: Rollback
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3 April 2024

• curprev 14:4014:40, 3 April 2024 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 12,260 bytes +312 Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5) (Whoop whoop pull up - 18543 undo

21 December 2023

• curprev 23:0123:01, 21 December 2023 InfoManiac297 talk contribs 11,948 bytes 0 →Detection undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• curprev 13:5613:56, 21 December 2023 Miklcct talk contribs 11,948 bytes +33 No edit summary undo

4 June 2023

• curprev 15:1315:13, 4 June 2023 HeyElliott talk contribs m 11,915 bytes +86 Fixed citation undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

16 September 2022

• curprev 06:0006:00, 16 September 2022 Tea2min talk contribs m 11,829 bytes −17 →History: Skip redirect in piped link. undo

14 March 2022

• curprev 09:4309:43, 14 March 2022 BrownHairedGirl talk contribs 11,846 bytes +32 tag with {{Bare URL PDF}} undo Tag: AWB

11 October 2021

• curprev 11:2811:28, 11 October 2021 Hellacioussatyr talk contribs m 11,814 bytes +1 →References undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

8 October 2021

• curprev 17:1317:13, 8 October 2021 GreenC bot talk contribs 11,813 bytes +1 Move 1 url. Wayback Medic 2.5 undo

30 September 2021

• curprev 01:3601:36, 30 September 2021 Yitzilitt talk contribs 11,812 bytes +53 Importing Wikidata short description: "Type of software vulnerability" (Shortdesc helper) undo

4 September 2021

• curprev 04:5104:51, 4 September 2021 2600:1700:f1b1:f9e0:c29:254e:738d:e836 talk 11,759 bytes +626 Add mention of earlier technical publications (disclaimer: I posted the second) undo

9 January 2021

• curprev 15:3115:31, 9 January 2021 Artoria2e5 talk contribs 11,133 bytes +24 No edit summary undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
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5 October 2020

• curprev 22:5422:54, 5 October 2020 Citation bot talk contribs 11,089 bytes +20 Alter: template type. Add: s2cid. | You can use this bot yourself. Report bugs here. | Suggested by AManWithNoPlan | All pages linked from cached copy of User:AManWithNoPlan/sandbox3 | via #UCB_webform_linked undo

1 March 2020

• curprev 17:5517:55, 1 March 2020 PaulTownsend talk contribs m 11,069 bytes −22 →References: Fix dead links (marc.theaimsgroup.com -> marc.info) undo

13 October 2019

• curprev 22:3722:37, 13 October 2019 Matthiaspaul talk contribs 11,091 bytes +99 →Further reading: improved refs undo

12 September 2019

• curprev 20:1220:12, 12 September 2019 2620:0:e50:3030:d4ce:2840:bb66:d15d talk 10,992 bytes 0 →Details: Capitalized 'perl' undo

21 August 2019

• curprev 21:4021:40, 21 August 2019 Matthiaspaul talk contribs 10,992 bytes −70 →See also: -desc undo
• curprev 12:2312:23, 21 August 2019 Matthiaspaul talk contribs 11,062 bytes +768 CE, improved formatting and refs undo

6 August 2019

• curprev 21:2021:20, 6 August 2019 46.208.236.213 talk 10,294 bytes −6 No edit summary undo

1 December 2018

• curprev 07:5107:51, 1 December 2018 138.16.128.0 talk 10,300 bytes −3 →Detection in x86-compiled binaries undo

10 September 2018

• curprev 17:4417:44, 10 September 2018 ThomasDullien talk contribs 10,303 bytes +1,128 The exploits mentioned were not the first privilege escalation issues; they were the first remote root exploits that obtained code execution and then a root shell. Furthermore added some details about detecting format strings in binaries. (Full disclosure: I was the author of a presentation back then that described scanning binaries for format string bugs; it is referenced from the TESO article, but I felt I should not add a reference to the main page due to conflict-of-interest). undo

15 July 2018

• curprev 10:0110:01, 15 July 2018 InternetArchiveBot talk contribs 9,175 bytes +43 Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta) undo

30 June 2018

• curprev 03:4903:49, 30 June 2018 Holdoffhunger talk contribs 9,132 bytes 0 →See also undo
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1 June 2018

• curprev 19:2019:20, 1 June 2018 2001:569:7bbe:7500:a999:a446:e0aa:7d3 talk 9,035 bytes +153 →External links undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit

4 April 2018

• curprev 01:4301:43, 4 April 2018 189.146.63.185 talk 8,882 bytes +14 →Details: created == History == undo

30 March 2018

• curprev 01:0301:03, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,868 bytes +29 →Details: Teso< undo
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• curprev 00:5700:57, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,664 bytes +18 →Details: in September 1999 undo
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• curprev 00:5100:51, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,618 bytes +20 →Details: {{Citation needed}} undo
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• curprev 00:3000:30, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,588 bytes +79 →Details: added <ref name="team_teso">http://julianor.tripod.com/bc/formatstring-1.2.pdf</ref> undo
• curprev 00:2600:26, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,509 bytes +10 →Prevention: added compilers to describe thar paragraph only describe compilers prevention methods undo
• curprev 00:2400:24, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,499 bytes −1 →Prevention: minor format change undo
• curprev 00:2300:23, 30 March 2018 189.146.50.192 talk 8,500 bytes +73 →Details: to take control of Instruction pointer (IP) of a process (described in a more detailed and technically form undo

1 November 2017

• curprev 12:5012:50, 1 November 2017 2003:62:4463:d700:9432:183c:b0e4:ca2e talk 8,427 bytes +147 Add a note about the availability of the FORTIFY_SOURCE macro that allows to detect certain types of format string attacks at run-time. undo Tag: Visual edit

9 October 2017

• curprev 21:2721:27, 9 October 2017 Strait talk contribs m 8,280 bytes −9 →Details: delete "actually" undo

9 June 2017

• curprev 16:5316:53, 9 June 2017 Magic links bot talk contribs m 8,289 bytes +8 Replace magic links with templates per local RfC and MediaWiki RfC undo

25 July 2016

• curprev 15:0615:06, 25 July 2016 Bender235 talk contribs m 8,281 bytes 0 clean up; http->https (see this RfC) using AWB undo

26 January 2016

• curprev 12:0912:09, 26 January 2016 Rjwilmsi talk contribs m 8,281 bytes +15 →Details: Journal cites, using AWB (11836) undo

25 January 2016

• curprev 16:0216:02, 25 January 2016 Rjwilmsi talk contribs m 8,266 bytes +25 →Details: Journal cites, Added 1 doi to a journal cite using AWB (11822) undo

31 August 2015

• curprev 13:3813:38, 31 August 2015 209.6.114.98 talk 8,241 bytes +108 Undid revision 644840621 by 192.35.17.12 (talk) unexplained removal undo
• curprev 13:3713:37, 31 August 2015 209.6.114.98 talk 8,133 bytes +202 rewrite discovery using inline citation undo