Open Security Training — Introductory x86 — Buffer Overflow Mystery Box

Open Security Training has a growing number of video lectures on a variety of subjects related to computer security. One of the introductory classes, Introductory Intel x86: Architecture, Assembly, Applications, & Alliteration, had a pretty neat Mystery Box challenge which refused to compile during the lecture so to save time it was skipped. In this guide I will go over the skipped Buffer Overflow challenge and explain exactly how to solve it.