Meaning of smash the stack | Babel Free

Definitions

To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.

informal

Examples

“There's something interesting about this approach — we haven't smashed the stack, so some mechanisms that might guard the stack won't notice...”

“We first wrote a vulnerable DLL and our own exploit code, and checked that the exploit smashes the stack.”

“[…] 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.”

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