Compilation error: stray ‘\302’ in program etc

Question

I am having problem compiling the followed exploit code:

http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/59846-1.c

I am using: \"gcc file.c\" and

Answer 1

You have invalid chars in your source. If you don't have any valid non ascii chars in your source, maybe in a double quoted string literal, you can simply convert your file back to ascii with:

tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' < old.c > new.c

Edit: method with iconv will stop at wrong chars which makes no sense. The above command line is working with the example file. Good luck :-)