stack smashing
nounEtymology Popularized by an early description of the technique titled Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (1996).
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The exploitation of a buffer overflow affecting the stack.
Computer security
- A stack smashing attack fills up the stack area and modifies the return address to an attacker's desired location.2008 December 17, Asoke K. Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 130:
- Related terms
- smash the stack