Irrespective of the severity assigned it's a good and simple case study for any programmer, engineer or not, building drivers and low-level stuff or not. Alongs

Irrespective of the severity assigned it's a good and simple case study for any programmer, engineer or not, building drivers and low-level stuff or not. Alongside it, and the iconic "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit", reading "The Bugs We Need to Kill"[1], makes a programmer much more aware that every program is prone to manipulation via its inputs. [1]: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_aug15_02_bratus_0.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_aug...