Stack smashing is a type of vulnerability that occurs when a hacker exploits a flaw in a program's memory allocation, causing the program to crash or execute arbitrary code. In this article, we will explore what stack smashing is, how it works, and what
Stack smashing is a somewhat loosely defined term that may point to various issues and can come from a variety of sources. The two most prominent issues which can cause stack smashing are; 1) to write/over-allocate too much data in a given part of the stack, thereby overwriting another pa...
"Unreachable code found": A block of code never executes because it is not reachable. "Empty block": This rule reports empty blocks such as If, Else, Catch. "Variable read before written (along some path)": Potential logic mistake. "Variable read before written": Variable always contai...
So, in many ways, the JAMstack is almost like a subset of what we were building before. Phil Hawksworth: I used to sometimes talk about JAMstack as the assured stack, because it’s assures a set of tools and technologies that we need to deliver a site. But, either way, it’s a ...
There is now improved protection from stack smashing in the error handling code of the SOED, TOED, and LED runtimes. When the newEXER_ENCODING_OF_DEFAULT_VALUES_AS_COMMENTSencoding flag is set, the E-XER encoder will now encode absent DEFAULT fields as XML comments that contain the correspon...
“What a race and definitely an excellent result for the team. We had a lot of pace today and fourth is a strong result. It’s been a while since I’ve had the fastest lap of the race, so that was also nice. My engineer told me what the current fastest was and I ...
Replacing default shader can also be leveraged to help with debugging. Below I've explained how overdraw can be detected with such a shader. Overdrawing happens when many or all pixels on the screen are rendered multiple times. For example, many objects taking the same place and being rendered...
But in August 2023, a new discovery called the strong force into question. By smashing an isotope of oxygen with a beam of fluorine atoms, physicists have finally created oxygen-28 — a rare form of oxygen long-predicted to be ultrastable. The only problemis that it isn’t. Oxygen-28 de...