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Implementing a web server in a single printf call (2014)

• dang 8y ago
  Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7389623
  • bauc 8y ago
    Thanks, I forgot to check the URL with Https to find previous discussion.
• saagarjha 8y ago
  TL;DR: the program subjects itself to a format string "attack", allowing it to execute the shellcode for the web server.