CSCI-3150 Stack Smashing Attack

In this lab tutorial, we introduce you some excited topic--hacking with GDB. At first, you should have a knowledge on GDB, a very powerful GNU debugger. In fact, we strongly suggest you to do so for its efficiency without infinite amounts of printf statements. Also, it will be best if you can pick up some assembly language, the chapter two of Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective will be wonderful materials. In order to make you have a deeper understanding of Linux stack, we design a small C program which you can hack based on stack buffer overflow. Don't be worried, this lab can be very easy with your basic knowledeg of stack, if you have attended Prof Eric LO's lecture.

By Pengfei ZHANG (pfzhang@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)