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Bandit
The Bandit wargame is aimed at absolute beginners. It will teach the basics needed to be able to play other wargames.
Leviathan
This wargame doesn't require any knowledge about programming - just a bit of common sense and some knowledge about basic *nix commands. We had no idea that it'd be this hard to make an interesting wargame that wouldn't require programming abilities from the players.
Narnia
This wargame is for the ones that want to learn basic exploitation. You can see the most common bugs in this game and we've tried to make them easy to exploit. You'll get the source code of each level to make it easier for you to spot the vuln and abuse it. The difficulty of the game is somewhere between Leviathan and Behemoth, but some of the levels could be quite tricky.
Behemoth
This wargame deals with a lot of regular vulnerabilities found commonly 'out in the wild'. While the game makes no attempts at emulating a real environment it will teach you how to exploit several of the most common coding mistakes including buffer overflows, race conditions and privilege escalation.
Utumno
This is a regular wargame composed of 10 different levels. It's slightly harder than the previous wargames in the same genre. Actually, it's a lot harder than Leviathan and a bit harder than Behemoth so if you haven't beaten those two you will probably want to do that first.
Maze
You'll need knowledge of exploitation-techniques, programming (of course) and reverse-engineering. We've tried to make the levels tricky and some of them strange, so get ready to use gdb.
Vortex
The Vortex wargame is currently composed of 27 levels. Most files you need are in /vortex/.
Manpage
This game is about breaking some common linux c-programming misconceptions. A good tactic when beginning to audit code for the first time is to read the manpages for pitfalls and unusual behavior. Many of these levels were inspired by the famous work of Ilja.
FormulaOne
FormulaOne’s levels are called formulaone0, formulaone1, … etc. and can be accessed on formulaone.labs.overthewire.org through SSH on port 2232.Data for the levels can be found in /formulaone/.
