Stack smashing: How Linux creates the stack and runs a program. Then mess with it.
  • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    173·
    7 months ago

    I was going to read this, but when it starts with this… yeah I’ll pass.

    How does Linux start a process …and how to ptrace the entry point and m3ss w1th da stack.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, the author is a bit 1337 hax0r, and is promoting their own tool, but I still thought the writeup was interesting. It’s interesting to see how much a non-root process can do to globally visible data.