The notion of automated exploitation is something that has at one point or another crossed the mind of almost every information security researcher since the dawn of the science. However, due to the heavy requirement of developing the theory, as well as the software to implement the theoretical mechanisms required, software to perform this task has not been seen in the professional debugging arena.

"A New Kind of Technology":

"Grayscale Research has changed this with the advent of the Prototype-8 software debugging suite. This whitepaper aims not to promote this software, but to provide the theory required to build such a system. By utilizing the inherent native debugging libraries on the Windows and the Linux platform, it is possible to achieve the holy grail of exploit development for both platforms. Reliable exploits, that literally write themselves."