I don't consider myself as somebody who is trying to learn how to hack but I'm just curious as how you actually implement an exploit from milw0rm.
I know it's code that you have to compile and run but I still don't understand it.
For example:
Say I found a machine using IMAP4rev1, so I go to milw0rm and search "IMAP4rev1" and it comes back with a couple exploits.
This being one of them:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/284
Now this is obviously a program written in C, so I would need to compile it. And this is the part I don't understand. Where would you go from here if you wanted to actually implement the program?
**NOTE: I'm not actually trying to hack anything and don't really know what I'm talking about, just curious as too how it all works.**