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return-oriented programming

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables
re-turn-ori-ent-ed pro-gram-ming
IPA
34
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A computer security exploit technique by which the attacker gains control of the call stack to hijack program control flow and then executes prepared instruction sequences ("gadgets") that are already present in the machine's memory.

Uncountable

Usage

Synonyms

ROP

Questions

What does return-oriented programming mean?
A computer security exploit technique by which the attacker gains control of the call stack to hijack program control flow and then executes prepared instruction sequences ("gadgets") that are already present in the machine's memory.

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