This assignment focuses on buffer overflow attacks and how theycan be carried out on poorly-programmed system programs. You maynot be able to complete this assignment on a modern operatingsystem, as there are canaries built-in to modern shells (andkernels) to prevent such a thing from occurring. I would recommendusing an older Linux distribution in a virtual machine for thisassignment (something prior to Linux kernel version 2.4).
Given the following C code file, perform a stack smash on thevuln.c code file using a C program that you create namedexploit.c.
//vuln . c
#include
#include
int main( int argc , char ??argv ) {
// Make some stack information
char a
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