The document provides an overview of basic penetration testing techniques including buffer overflow vulnerabilities, return oriented programming (ROP), format string vulnerabilities, and ways to bypass data execution prevention (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR). It discusses stack-based buffer overflows, the structure of the x86 stack, overwriting the return address, and controlling the instruction pointer. It also covers ROP techniques like ret2libc, gadgets, chaining, and using libc functions. Finally, it briefly mentions tools like pwntools, ROPgadget, and techniques like IO wrapping and LD_PRELOAD hijacking.