Lecture: Stack Smashing

Not much to say about recent work, but I’d like to share a lecture I wrote for the honors section of the systems programming course I am helping teach. It’s a broad overview on stack buffer overflow exploits and common defenses, for the newbie systems programmer, with a few pretty diagrams that I spent way too much time on…

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