smash the stack
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Informal To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
- 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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- […] 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:
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