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smash the stack en · VERB

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1. (informal) To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
   • […] which in turn smashed the stack with a new return address that the author hoped would point into the buffer and eventually hit the shellcode within it. 2005, Peter Szor, The art of computer virus research and defense:
   • There's something interesting about this approach — we haven't smashed the stack, so some mechanisms that might guard the stack won't notice... 2003, Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, Writing Secure Code:
   • We first wrote a vulnerable DLL and our own exploit code, and checked that the exploit smashes the stack. 2004, Yves Deswarte, Frederic Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia, Lingyu Wang, Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems:

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