Heap Three

This level introduces the Doug Lea Malloc (dlmalloc) and how heap meta data can be modified to change program execution.

This level is at /opt/protostar/bin/heap3

Source code

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void winner()
{
  printf("that wasn't too bad now, was it? @ %d\n", time(NULL));
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  char *a, *b, *c;

  a = malloc(32);
  b = malloc(32);
  c = malloc(32);

  strcpy(a, argv[1]);
  strcpy(b, argv[2]);
  strcpy(c, argv[3]);

  free(c);
  free(b);
  free(a);

  printf("dynamite failed?\n");
}