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How Do Buffer Overflow Attacks Work? Going Behind-the-Scenes as a Hacker

How Do Buffer Overflow Attacks Work? Going Behind-the-Scenes as a Hacker
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Where the top of the stack is on x86 - Eli Bendersky s website

Eli Bendersky s website February 04, 2011 at 07:24 Tags Articles , Assembly I ve noticed more than once that some programmers are confused about the direction in which the stack grows on x86, and what top of the stack and bottom of the stack mean. It appears that this confusion is caused by a basic mismatch in the way people are used to thinking about stacks, and in the way the stack on x86 actually behaves [1]. In this article, I intend to resolve this confusion with a few helpful diagrams. The stack analogy Back to the basics. The stack analogy is sometimes demonstrated to new students of computing with a stack of plates. You push a plate onto the stack and pop a plate off the stack. The top of the stack is where your next plate goes when pushing, and from where you take a plate when popping.

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