[3926] in bugtraq
Re: Smashing the stack on a DEC Alpha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Digital Dreamer)
Fri Jan 17 01:43:17 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 17:37:55 -0700
Reply-To: Digital Dreamer <dreamer@garrison.inetcan.net>
From: Digital Dreamer <dreamer@garrison.inetcan.net>
X-To: Lamont Granquist <lamontg@hitl.washington.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970116142403.20197B-100000@stout.hitl.washington.edu>
On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Lamont Granquist wrote:
> > ./testsc
> 1ffff6c0
> 1ffff6c8
> 1ffff6c8
> 6bfa8001
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
>
> I haven't tried throwing the code into the environment and trying to
> execute it there, but I can't see how that would make much of a
> difference over the stack...
If I recall, and I could be wrong here, the stack is marked as
non-executable on that platform, and as a result, the system won't
execute code placed there.
Don't quote me on that though.
dreamer
