smash the stack
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."