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Stack Smashing - technical definition
Occurs when a cracker purposely overflows a buffer on stack to
get access to forbidden regions of computer memory. A stack smash is based upon
the attributes of common implementations of C
and C++.
See Also: Buffer Overflows; Programming Lanugages C, C++, Perl, and Java.
Aleph One. Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit. [Online, Nov 8, 1996.]
Phrack, V 9, # 49, 14 http://www.phrack.org/archives/phrack49.tar.gz .