The main point of this paper is education. if it helps people learn about memory corruption vulns/exploits, that's great, and if you want to contribute, that's great too. This is originally for a class, so no contributions will be accepted until it's been turned in for grading (sometimes mid-december 2012). to build the paper, simply run 'pdflatex paper.tex'. The output will be 'paper.pdf'. Below is the output from 'pdflatex --version', in case you have problems building and want to know what i used. pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Arch Linux) kpathsea version 6.1.0 Copyright 2012 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the pdfTeX source. Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Compiled with libpng 1.5.12; using libpng 1.5.13 Compiled with zlib 1.2.7; using zlib 1.2.7 Compiled with poppler version 0.20.5