Re: "Moving" Stack: my poor return address!

"Steve Bonds" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities
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On 7/31/06, Jack C list-recv-at-crepinc.com wrote:

> To see if I still knew how to code simple buffer overflows after a long
> absence from it, I threw together a quick vulnerable C program today and
> wrote and exploit for it. The whole process went great, until I went to
> find the return address I wanted in the stack.

Check out the below thread.  You're hitting the same "stack coloring"
introduced in Red Hat 9.0 that I hit when I did the same thing.  ;-)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/381158

  -- Steve
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