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Ummmm I may be way off base here but I remember hearing that some implementations (*BSD??) randomly reorder the local variables on stack to make exploiting buff
by pfedor 18y ago
Ummmm I may be way off base here but I remember hearing that some implementations (*BSD??) randomly reorder the local variables on stack to make exploiting buffer overruns more difficult. So if it's true then you do need to make a function call.
- aston 18y agoNot sure this is even possible with compiled code. Even so, you don't really change the buffer overrun attack vector at all by moving variables around.