Hello

My friend is teacher of first-year CS students. We want to show them buffer overflow exploitation. But modern distribs are protected from simples buffer overflows:

HOME=`perl -e "print 'A'x269"`  one_widely_used_utility_is_here --help

on debian (blame it)

Caught signal 11,

on modern commercial redhat

*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/bin/one_widely_used_utility_is_here terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__chk_fail+0x41)[0xc321c1]
/lib/libc.so.6(__strcpy_chk+0x43)[0xc315e3]
/usr/bin/one_widely_used_utility_is_here[0x805xxxc]
/usr/bin/one_widely_used_utility_is_here[0x804xxxc]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xb61e9c]
/usr/bin/one_widely_used_utility_is_here[0x804xxx1]
======= Memory map: ========
00336000-00341000 r-xp 00000000 08:02
2751047    /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
00341000-00342000 rwxp 0000a000 08:02
2751047    /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.2-20080825.so.1
008f3000-008f4000 r-xp 008f3000 00:00 0          [vdso]

The same detector fails for more synthetic examples from the internet.

How can we demonstrate buffer overflow with modern non-GPL distribs (there is no debian in classes)

How can we

• DISABLE canary word checking in stack ?
• DISABLE checking variants of strcpy/strcat ?
• write an example (in plain C) with working buffer overrun ?