smash the stack

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Definition of smash the stack in English English dictionary

To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system

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.

Turkish pronunciation

smäş dhi stäk

Pronunciation

/ˈsmasʜ ᴛʜē ˈstak/ /ˈsmæʃ ðiː ˈstæk/