This is probably not the correct interpretation of this error.
The Win32 error above is more likely to indicate the actual problem.
Flags
Severity
Success
This code indicates success, rather than an error.
This may not be the correct interpretation of this code,
or possibly the program is handling errors incorrectly.
I am performing a buffer overflow, by avoiding the canary through a memcpy to a pointer, as explained here . In short, you overwrite the address a pointer points to, with the address of the RET in the stack. So memcpy-ing to that pointer, effectively overwrites RET. Using gdb, I [...] read more