Fair enough; I had the mistaken idea that the two terms are interchangeable, but apparently stack smashing is only used for the attack involving the stack: htt

Fair enough; I had the mistaken idea that the two terms are interchangeable, but apparently stack smashing is only used for the attack involving the stack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_buffer_overflow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_buffer_overflow so, pretend I said "overflow" instead of "smash" in my post.