Task 12 [Day 6] Memory corruption Memories of Christmas Past.md

Task 12 [Day 6] Memory corruption Memories of Christmas Past

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Learning Objectives

• Understand how specific languages may not handle memory safely.
• Understand how variables might overflow into adjacent memory and corrupt it.
• Exploit a simple buffer overflow to directly change memory you are not supposed to access.

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After machine is up. access it using the ip.

Questions:

1. If the coins variable had the in-memory value in the image below, how many coins would you have in the game?

ANSWER

1397772111

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2. What is the value of the final flag?

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ANSWER

THM{mchoneybell_is_the_real_star}