[Code-Crunchers] 69 byte shellcode to add root user 'r00t'

[Peter Kosinar]

> Great stuff.  Sorry, a bit new to the game here, but this line:
> * ; open("/etc//passwd", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND)
>
> Should it be //etc//passwd, /etc/passwd, or is the mix of single and
> double slash correct?

Yes, it's correct. "/etc/passwd" is, unfortunately, 11 bytes long and 
pushing exactly 11 bytes on the stack is more space-consumming than 
pushing 12. Obviously, "//etc/passwd" would work equally well.

Peter

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