Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Crashing the vulnerable application

We will first download a simple application that uses vulnerable functions. In the next section, we will try crashing this vulnerable application. Let's try running the application from command shell as follows:

We can see that this is a small example application running on TCP port 200. We will connect to this application via TELNET on port 200 and supply random data to it, as shown in the following screenshot:

After we supply the data, we will see that the connection to the target is lost. This is because ...