[Dailydave] Dangling pointers exploitation

[Thomas Ptacek]

I'm not sure "saved return address on the stack" is the real vector
for uninitialized variables.

On 7/25/07, pageexec at freemail.hu <pageexec at freemail.hu> wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2007 at 12:02, Thomas Ptacek wrote:
>
> > you have a pointer who's value seems unpredictable but is
> > in fact strongly influenced by the execution environment which is in
> > turn often influenced by inputs and timing.
>
> such as... a saved return address on the stack? isn't that kinda old
> news these days? ;-)
>
>


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