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The University of Queensland

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

CSSE2310/CSSE7231 — Semester 1, 2021

Assignment 2 (v1.0)

Marks: 50

Weighting: 10%

Due: 3:59pm 1 April, 2021

Introduction

The goal of this assignment is to ensure you have gained familiarity and skills with both the C programming

language and using a debugger (such as gdb(1)) to examine various characteristics of running programs. These

will be essential skills in later assignments for this course. For this assignment you will be given an executable

program (the “bomb”) which you have to “defuse” by entering the correct defusing phrases into the program

for each of the 10 bomb phases.

Student conduct

This is an individual assignment. You should work on defusing your own bomb by yourself. You should feel

free to discuss aspects of C programming and the use of debuggers with your fellow students, but you shouldn’t

actively help (or seek help from) anyone with the defusing of particular phases. Do not share your approaches

to solving the bomb phases - even after the assignment deadline (as extensions may be given to other students).

You should note that each student will receive a different bomb and the strings that defuse your bomb will

be different to the strings that defuse another student’s bomb.

In short - don’t risk it! If you’re having trouble, seek help early from a member of the teaching staff. Don’t

be tempted to cheat. You should read and understand the statements on student misconduct in the course profile

and on the school website: https://www.itee.uq.edu.au/itee-student-misconduct-including-plagiarism

Obtaining the “Bomb”

Whilst logged in to moss.labs.eait.uq.edu.au, you should type the following command:

getbomb

This will create a subdirectory within your current directory named csse2310a2 and place the bomb files into

that directory. The files will include an executable called bomb and a number of source files (.h and .c files).

Your bomb (executable and source) will be different to the bombs for all other students. You will not receive

all of the source files – just some of them. There is enough information contained within the bomb executable

and the supplied source files in order for you to successfully defuse all phases (although some of them are more

difficult than others). You should note that some of the bomb’s modules have been compiled with debugging

support (-g flag to gcc) and some haven’t.

Running the “Bomb”

The bomb program will only run on moss.labs.eait.uq.edu.au and you are the only user who can run your bomb

program. Any attempt to run the program on another host or to run another user’s bomb will cause the bomb

to exit immediately. Whilst in your csse2310a2 directory, you can execute the bomb by typing

./bomb

You may not want to do this until you are ready to try defusing the bomb. When you start the bomb program,

it will print out details of any phases you have already defused and it will print your current mark (out of 50)

and the maximum mark you can obtain based on your attempts to date.

The bomb will then prompt you to enter the number of the phase to defuse next, followed by the string that

you believe defuses that phase (or a test string). You will be prompted for confirmation before that string is

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tested. If you confirm your attempt and the string is incorrect then the bomb will “explode” and exit. If the

string is correct, then that phase is defused and you will not be able to solve it again. You will lose marks for

every time the bomb “explodes”.

You should note that the bomb is booby trapped. You are warned against modifying the internal data

structures of the bomb – you never know what might happen and any loss of marks you incur will not be

reversed.

Hints

There are two demo phases that do not count for marks. You may attempt these as many times as you like by

entering either “demo1” or “demo2” when prompted for a phase to defuse. There is no mark penalty if either

of these demo phases “explodes.”

You should carefully read the supplied source code and be familiar with the use of gdb before attempting

to run the bomb. It is suggested you run the bomb from within a debugger rather than standalone. Note that

you may get a warning message about “Missing separate debuginfos...” – you can safely ignore this message.

All phases have associated code and some debugging information and you will need to use a debugger to set

breakpoints, examine various variables etc in order to determine the defusing strings. You may need to learn

about and use a number of features of gdb including watchpoints, automatic display, conditional breakpoints,

and/or breakpoint command lists to solve the phases more efficiently.

You should note that the code that determines each defusing string is not executed until AFTER the defusing

text is read from the user so you may need to enter some arbitrary text, debug the code to determine the defusing

string, quit the program and then run it again to enter the defusing string for that phase.

The bomb is deterministic – the same sequence of inputs will result in the same operation each time, so the

defusing string for each phase will not vary over time. However, many of the functions within the bomb are not

deterministic – they may return something different each time they are called.

Submission

Every time you run the bomb, a record is kept of your interactions with it and your success/failure at defusing

each phase. Your submission time for the assignment will be considered to be the time of your last attempt

to defuse any phase of the bomb. You must make at least one attempt in order to be considered to have

made a submission. An attempt means either that the bomb explodes or a phase is defused.

Late penalties will apply as described in the CSSE2310/CSSE7231 course profile. Any attempt to defuse

the bomb after the deadline will result in a late penalty being applied to your whole assignment mark.

Marks

There are 10 phases, each worth 5 marks. The mark you achieve for each phase is determined by the number

of attempts taken before you successfully defuse that phase. If you do not defuse a phase you will receive zero

marks for that phase. If you defuse a phase on the first attempt, you will receive 5 marks for that phase. If it

takes you longer than one attempt, your mark for that phase will be

5 × 0.8

(number of attempts−1)

i.e. if it takes you 2 attempts, your mark for that phase will be 4 out of 5, 3 attempts gives you 3.2 out of 5, 4

attempts gives you 2.56 out of 5, etc. There is no limit on the number of attempts you can make at any phase

before succeeding. You should note that although each phase is worth the same number of marks, they are

not of equal difficulty. All marks are subject to an audit of our logs to ensure that you have correctly entered

the defusing strings and haven’t tampered with the bomb to defuse it in some other way. Tampering with the

bomb to make it appear as though you have defused a phase when you have not correctly defused it will result

in zero marks for that phase.

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