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.
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.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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