Common Vulnerability Exercise – 20 picoctf writeup 2014

cev-20

This disc is encrypted. The surprisingly elaborate password hint refers to “the CVE Identifier for a 2014 vulnerability that allowed arbitrary code execution in Firefox via a buffer overflow in a speech codec”. If you found this “CVE-ID” thingy, it’d probably be the password.

cev-20_hint

You can search CVEs at Mitre. Google is pretty good at searching things too 😉

Searching in the Mitre for 2014 and firefox you get very few result back and finding one which has something to do with the buffer overflow 😀

cev_ans

So here is our flag

CVE-2014-1542
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