Stack2 looks at environment variables, and how they can be set.
This level is at /opt/protostar/bin/stack2
#include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { volatile int modified; char buffer[64]; char *variable; variable = getenv("GREENIE"); if(variable == NULL) { errx(1, "please set the GREENIE environment variable\n"); } modified = 0; strcpy(buffer, variable); if(modified == 0x0d0a0d0a) { printf("you have correctly modified the variable\n"); } else { printf("Try again, you got 0x%08x\n", modified); } }