RE: Regarding Aleph's "Smashing the Stack for fun and Profit"

["Miguel Dilaj" <Miguel.Dilaj () nccgroup com>]

Hi!

Don't be surprise about assembler code being different, compilers
evolved over time, new internal optimizations and ways to generate
machine code (that you don't control) came on board, etc.
Aleph One's article is old, the older it gets, more different the code
will be.
I haven't checked why you got the error (typo?, hardened OS?, improper
compiling?), but I would like to recommend a book that (IMHO) is one of
the best ones on the topic: The Shellcoder's Handbook, by several
authors (ISBN: 0764544683).
Cheers,

Miguel


-----Original Message-----
From: ra_in_2003 () yahoo com [mailto:ra_in_2003 () yahoo com] 
Sent: 03 October 2005 14:52
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Regarding Aleph's "Smashing the Stack for fun and Profit"

Hi,

I was trying out examples given in Aleph One's Smashing the Stack
article. But somehow I am not getting the expected results. I am running
RedHat Linux Kernel 2.4-20 on an Intel Piii. GCC version is 3.2.2.

{snip}

The generated assembly is also different from the one given in the
article:

{snip}

I have tried turning on and off the optimizations right from -O0 to -O3.
Also have tried different offsets. 

Shall be grateful if somebody can point out what is the problem and what
am I doing wrong. If there's an updated version of the tutorial,
pointers to it will also be great!

Thanks in Advance,
RA_IN