IDA and the Exploit-Development Process
Assuming that you manage to locate a potentially exploitable vulnerability, how can IDA help with the exploit-development process? The answer to this question requires that you understand what type of help you need in order for you to make use of the appropriate features of IDA.
IDA is very good at several things that can save you a tremendous amount of trial and error when developing exploits:
IDA graphs can be useful in determining control flow paths as a means of understanding how a vulnerable function may be reached. Careful selection of graph-generation parameters may be required in large binaries in order to minimize the complexity of generated graphs. Refer to Chapter 9 for more information on IDA graphs. ...
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