How to conduct buffer overflow in PHP/Python?

Question

Here is an example in c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void bad() {
    printf("Oh shit really bad~!\r\n");
}

void foo() {
    char overme[4] = "WOW";
    *(int*)(overme+8) = (int)bad;
}

int main() {
   foo();
}

Answer 1

The fact that Python and PHP are interpreted like suggested by others isn't actually the point. The point is that almost all of the APIs and language semantics that they expose are heavily error-checked making it impossible to have exploitable undefined behavior. Even if you compile the languages, it would still be impossible. This doesn't mean that you couldn't expose unsafe APIs that can do whatever. In fact, using Pythons ctypes module, it should be possible to create a similar behavior, but significantly harder to do so by accident.