Watching in Real Time
To see the FTP server crash in real time and also track what's happening on the stack, you will need a debugger. I'm partial to OllyDbg (http://www.ollydbg.de/), but Immunity, Inc. recently released Immunity Debugger (http://www.immunitysec.com/products-immdbg.shtml/), which I'm told is also good. Choose a debugger and install it on the computer hosting the FTP server.
Watching the program crash isn't complicated; the first step is to restart the FTP Server. Then fire up OllyDbg. When OllyDbg has opened, select File ► Attach. A list of running processes will pop up in a new window. The list will contain all of the processes currently running on the system hosting the FTP server (that is, the victim system). Scroll down the ...
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