Bugtraq: Re: Smashing the stack on a DEC Alpha

[dreamer () garrison inetcan net (Digital Dreamer)]

On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Lamont Granquist wrote:

> > ./testsc
> 1ffff6c0
> 1ffff6c8
> 1ffff6c8
> 6bfa8001
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> I haven't tried throwing the code into the environment and trying to
> execute it there, but I can't see how that would make much of a
> difference over the stack...
If I recall, and I could be wrong here, the stack is marked as
non-executable on that platform, and as a result, the system won't
execute code placed there.

Don't quote me on that though.

dreamer