From 8366e9ed4b9466150c5592528a8250c652fb6280 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Fauerbach <kyle.fauer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2019 11:25:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add buffer overflow example

---
 c_programs/overflow.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 c_programs/overflow.c

diff --git a/c_programs/overflow.c b/c_programs/overflow.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3df5d71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/c_programs/overflow.c
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+// Basic program that illustrates how to execute a stack based buffer
+// overflow.
+//
+// Compile using gcc -fno-stack-protector -o out overflow.c
+//
+// ./overflow <my_string>
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
+    char buf[256];
+    strcpy(buf, argv[1]);
+    printf("Input: %s\n", buf);
+    return 0;
+}