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saagarjha
on Nov 17, 2019
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Infectious Executable Stacks
Any function call can fail already: if you’ve overflowed the stack there’s not much you can do.
dooglius
on Nov 17, 2019
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True, but for reliable programs, generally a separate tool will be used to statically ensure this can't happen (e.g. checkstack.pl for the Linux kernel), and these existing tools wouldn't know to parse this a new alternative allocation structure.
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