Define "so easily"?
They exploited a linear stack buffer overflow. Not a write-what-where or arb write. A linear stack buffer overflow in 2026! There are at least two distinct failures there:
1. No strong stack protectors.
2. No kASLR.
That's 20-year-old exploit methodology.
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They exploited a linear stack buffer overflow. Not a write-what-where or arb write. A linear stack buffer overflow in 2026! There are at least two distinct failures there:
1. No strong stack protectors.
2. No kASLR.
That's 20-year-old exploit methodology.