{"id":32327,"date":"2023-01-29T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-is-it-possible-to-crack-the-password-in-this-c-program\/"},"modified":"2023-01-29T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T18:31:11","slug":"solved-is-it-possible-to-crack-the-password-in-this-c-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-is-it-possible-to-crack-the-password-in-this-c-program\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Is it possible to crack the password in this c program?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-32170606\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"32170606\" data-parentid=\"32159269\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>OP has done a significant edit a 2nd time &#8211; better to start a new question.  @J.Selva, do not change the question again.<\/p>\n<p>In this version, the below code does not check the return value of <code>fgets()<\/code> (which is an exploit opening)  and yet uses <code>password<\/code>. This creates a problem that may be used to crack.  Say a previous run of code with the correct password occurred.  Now with this run, the nefarious user causes an IO error which <code>fgets()<\/code> returns <code>NULL<\/code>.  The contents of <code>passwd<\/code> are indeterminate and <em>could<\/em> be the value of a previous <code>fgets()<\/code> call.  The <code>memset()<\/code> does not help here as that clears <code>passwd<\/code> and not the internal buffers used by <code>fgets()<\/code> to assign <code>password<\/code>.<\/p>\n<pre><code>memset(passwd,0,sizeof(passwd));\nfgets(password, sizeof password, stdin);\nstrcpy(passwd, password);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Proper code would use<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/\/ memset not needed\n\/\/ memset(passwd,0,sizeof(passwd));\n\nif (fgets(password, sizeof password, stdin) == NULL) {\n  Handle_EOForInputError();\n  return -1;\n}\nstrcpy(passwd, password);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Is it possible to crack the password in this c program? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] OP has done a significant edit a 2nd time &#8211; better to start a new question. @J.Selva, do not change the question again. 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