smash the stack

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   To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used…

   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...
   • 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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