Protostar Stack5

About

Stack5 is a standard buffer overflow, this time introducing shellcode.

This level is at /opt/protostar/bin/stack5

Hints

• At this point in time, it might be easier to use someone elses shellcode
• If debugging the shellcode, use \xcc (int3) to stop the program executing and return to the debugger
• remove the int3s once your shellcode is done.

Source code

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#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  char buffer[64];

  gets(buffer);
}