As an OSCP student, I frequently searched the web for notes, tips, advice, or anything that would help me learn the necessary skills to pass the exam. This field guide started off as that, a collection of gathered OSCP notes from around the web, but as I learn more, this post serves as a place to document everything.
SLMail is an awesome choice of software to easily practice creating and exploiting buffer overflows. If you need to practice Buffer Overflows for your OSCP, then hopefully this tutorial can help you.