GDB throws error while stepping into at breakpoint

Question

I am trying to follow a video tutoial on buffer overflow from this link and below is the code which I am trying.

#include <stdio.h>

GetInput() 
{
    char buffer[8];

    gets(buffer);
    puts(buffer);   
}

main()
{
   GetInput();       
   return 0;
}

I am getting an isssue in gdb debugging, while I step onto i.e at line 7, I get the below error:

_IO_gets (buf=0xbffff458 "k\204\004\b") at iogets.c:33
33  iogets.c: No such file or directory.

I am following exactly the same steps as mentioned in the tutorial. I am using 32 bit Kali linux on virtual box

Can anyone help me to get through this problem.

Answer 1

The author of the post is following a buffer overflow exploitation course. Instead of helping him, everyone jumped with off topic information. We all know that the code is wrong, but then, how you are supposed to learn buffer overflow exploitation if not on a bad code ?

In this case debugging didn't work properly because location of the debug file is somewhere else.

(gdb) show debug-file-directory
The directory where separate debug symbols are searched for is "/usr/lib/debug"

Execute the following in gdb

(gdb) set debug-file-directory

Now you will be able to debug your code. HF