stack smashing

English

Etymology

Popularized by an early description of the technique titled Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (1996).[1]

Noun

stack smashing (uncountable)

  1. (computer security) The exploitation of a buffer overflow affecting the stack.
    • 2008 December 17, Asoke K. Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 130:
      A stack smashing attack fills up the stack area and modifies the return address to an attacker's desired location.

References

  1. ^ Aleph One (November 1996) “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit”, in Phrack‎[1], volume 7, number 49

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