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Okay after reading (And watching!) alot of articles (and videos) I think I can update my understanding of the problem to the following:

1. gets() is the vulnerable function, not strcmp()
2. I...

Okay so i tried putting a lot of characters into the txt file and the exec file crashed. However, no matter how many or what char i use, the EIP still has the same value. What am i doing wrong?

But the idea is to try and get the program to print Welcome and not just exit. I was told I need to try and change the value of "i" to be able to get to think i have entered a right use/pass combo....

Thanks for your reply. Well, it is an academic example, so it's not a real program. The problem is that I don't know how to buffer overflow it. Can you please try and explain to me on his program how...

Hi again,

It is a school assignment, it's the first part of two parts, but I need to get this done first then i need to know what are the reasons it was causing an overflow and try and fix it. The...

Can you check this out: C | #include <stdio.h> char use - Anonymous - PLhjE5cG - Pastebin.com

The executable file takes one argument, a txt file that contains username and password.
I realize...