Top "Stack-smash" questions

Stack smashing is a buffer overflow vulnerability which is characterized by writing data outside the size of a stack-allocated buffer, causing corruption of a neighboring stack frame and potentially permitting execution of malicious code.

How to debug 'Stack smashing detected'?

I have a complex c++ code. It's a FastCGI program, using the FastCGI C++ Class library. When I ask it …

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what is stack smashing (C)?

Code: int str_join(char *a, const char *b) { int sz =0; while(*a++) sz++; char *st = a -1, c; *st = (…

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*** stack smashing detected *** Aborted (core dumped)

I'm trying to debug a program that gives the error: Abort (core dumped). Valgrind detects a stack smashing and gives …

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How do I provide stdin inputs from command line?

I am trying to perform a buffer overflow attack on a program for a class assignment. Both the attack program …

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