smash the stack
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[edit]smash the stack (third-person singular simple present smashes the stack, present participle smashing the stack, simple past and past participle smashed the stack)
- (informal, programming) To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
- 2003, Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, Writing Secure Code:
- There's something interesting about this approach — we haven't smashed the stack, so some mechanisms that might guard the stack won't notice...
- 2004, Yves Deswarte, Frederic Cuppens, Sushil Jajodia, Lingyu Wang, Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems:
- We first wrote a vulnerable DLL and our own exploit code, and checked that the exploit smashes the stack.
- 2005, Peter Szor, The art of computer virus research and defense:
- […] 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.