For this years Binary Golf Grand Prix I started off by learning to fuzz properly, use a debugger properly, and various tooling. The objective was originally to hit all of the bonus points:
+1024 pts, if you submit a writeup about your process and details about the crash +1024 pts, if the program counter is all 3’s when the program crashes +2048 pts, if you hijack execution and print or return “3” +4096 pts, if you author a patch for your bug which is merged before the end of the competition Well, life happens, and I ended up using the majority of my 2 week break from work doing more important things like taking care of my sick infant son (He’s doing much better now).