// Hacker Noon · 1 February 2026

The House of G.E.T.S.: A Practical Bypass for the Null-Byte Barrier

Modern secure coding "fixes" often replace one vulnerability with a more dangerous exploit primitive. This deep dive demonstrates how replacing strcpy() with a null-terminated gets() loop creates a "Zero'ed Wall" that can be bypassed using partial return address overwrites and PLT hijacking.

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