Re: Why doesnt work?

[Vade 79 <v9 () fakehalo deadpig org>]

In-Reply-To: <200310071356.PAA26163 () fedro2 ugr es>

overflowing this example program does not follow the same rules as a "standard stack overflow".  as it is not inside a 
sub-function, and is overflowing in main(){}...

> // foo.c, vuln proggy
> // compile gcc -o foo foo.c
> // 
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h> 
>
> main (int argc,char **argv){ 
>
> char buffer[1024]; 
>
> if (!argc) {
>    fprintf(stdout,"No argument found.");
>    exit(-1);
>    } 
>
> strcpy(buffer,argv[1]); 
>
> }