#include <string.h>#include <stdio.h>#include <stdlib.h>/* I used as environment the virtual machine provided here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis551/box.tar This is Debian/Etch with Linux 2.6.18 with gcc 4.1.2 from 2008. Some installation notes for this virtual machine under VMWare are here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis551/project1.pdf I run the virtial machine under MacOSX using the program VirtualBox available for free from https://www.virtualbox.org The C-program I compiled the program with gcc -ggdb -fno-stack-protector -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 */void foo (char *bar){ float my_float = 10.5; // in hex: \x41\x28\x00\x00 char buffer[28]; printf("my float value = %f\n", my_float); strcpy(buffer, bar); printf("my float value = %f\n", my_float);}int main (int argc, char **argv){ foo("my string is too long !!!!! "); // all is normal foo("my string is too long !!!!! \x10\x10\xc0\x42"); // overwrites my_float return 0;}