RE: Buffer Overflow problem

["JTH" <jth () visi com>]

Yeah, how could you be so dumb! </sarcasm>

/me doesn't get any of this...

Every exchange like this that I read through at least makes me feel like
I'm a bit closer to understanding shellcode, though.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Vill [mailto:kalookalaa () hotmail com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:56 AM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Buffer Overflow problem
>
> Hello,
>
> I loaded the program today and I was shaking my head even 
> before I tried to 
> overflow it... I just subtracted a few from the esp to get 
> inside the NOP 
> sled. The Illegal Instruction came from returning before the 
> buffer was 
> allocated. I feel like such an ass, sorry for these dumb 
> questions, I think 
> the esp changed a little when I ran the program. A big thank you to 
> Krzysztof and Byrne for your help with this! I wont spam the 
> list anymore 
> with this stuff =P
>
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