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Re: Smashing the stack on a DEC Alpha

From: dreamer () garrison inetcan net (Digital Dreamer)
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:37:55 -0700


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

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