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Hacking Randomized Linux Kernel Images at the DEF CON 33 Car Hacking Village

Disassembly view highlighting CodeRegion 0x402000–0x402028 and ELF section .shellcode during firmware analysis.

Red Balloon Security’s DEF CON 33 Car Hacking Village CTF write-up: unpacking firmware, cracking a repeating-key XOR, and exploiting a buffer overflow on ARM64 to ROP into mprotect() and execute shellcode—despite randomized Linux syscall numbers.

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