Immunity Debugger showing path instead of argv[1]

Question

I'm trying to learn Buffer Overflow Here is the vulnerable code

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

int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
    char buffer[64];

    if(argc < 2){
        printf("The number of argument is incorrect\n");
        return 1;
    }
    strcpy(buffer, argv[0]);
    return 0;
}

The problem is that when I try to run the code in Immunity Debugger, I don't see AAAAAAA in the source in the stack pane I see the path to my test.exe. Later, I don't see 0x41s ....obviously

What is happening ?

Answer 1

To get the program’s argument, you need to check argv[1] instead of argv[0]. From cppreference:

The parameters of the two-parameter form of the main function allow arbitrary multibyte character strings to be passed from the execution environment (these are typically known as command line arguments), the pointers argv[1].. argv[argc-1] point at the first characters in each of these strings. argv[0] is the pointer to the initial character of a null-terminated multibyte string that represents the name used to invoke the program itself (or an empty string "" if this is not supported by the execution environment).