Midnight Flag CTF 2026 โ€“ ๐Ÿ˜€ Challenge Writeup

This challenge presents an extremely restrictive C code jail. A remote server accepts a single line of C source code from the user, validates it against a character filter, compiles it with GCC using special flags (no libc, no standard startup code, static linking), and executes the resulting binary. The flag is stored at /flag-.txt on the filesystem. The core difficulty lies in the character filter:โ€ฆ

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Midnight Flag CTF 2026 โ€“ ๐Ÿ˜€ Challenge Writeup ยป kore.one

This challenge presents an extremely restrictive C code jail. A remote server accepts a single line of C source code from the user, validates it against a character filter, compiles it with GCC using special flags (no libc, no standard startup code, static linking), and executes the resulting binary. The flag is stored at /flag-.txt

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