stack overflow attacks
Stack overflow attacks occur when a malicious hacker manipulates software vulnerabilities to overwhelm a program's memory stack, causing it to crash or allow unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Requires login.
Related Concepts (17)
- binary exploitation techniques
- buffer overflow attacks
- clickjacking attacks
- code injection attacks
- cross-site request forgery (csrf) attacks
- cross-site scripting (xss) attacks
- denial of service (dos) attacks
- directory traversal attacks
- format string attacks
- heap overflow attacks
- integer overflow attacks
- kernel data structure exploitation
- ldap injection attacks
- remote code execution attacks
- return-oriented programming attacks
- sql injection attacks
- xml injection attacks
Similar Concepts
- buffer overflow attack
- buffer overflow exploit
- buffer overflow vulnerabilities
- buffer overflows
- heap overflow
- heap overflow vulnerabilities
- heap overflows
- stack buffer overflow
- stack overflow
- stack overflows
- stack smashing attacks
- stack-based attacks
- stack-based buffer overflow
- stack-based buffer overflows
- stack-based memory corruption