The theory of stack based buffer overruns
Xiao-Lei Zhang · Journal of Guangzhou University · 2004
So far, buffer overrun is the most dangerous attack. It has two main flows, the stack-based attack and the BSS-based attack. This article mainly concerns the stack-based one. The author analyzed the theory of attack—What is it? Why can it work? At last, the author gave some suggestions to avoid this kind of attack.