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shatter attack

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables
shat-ter at-tack
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.

Etymology

Coined in a paper in 2002 by Chris Paget: Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.

Inflected Forms

shatter attacks (plural)

Questions

What does shatter attack mean?
A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.
Where does shatter attack come from?
Coined in a paper in 2002 by Chris Paget: Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.

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