diff -r c75a03ab8ac9 -r 8fe0dc898c73 handouts/ho03.tex --- a/handouts/ho03.tex Sat Oct 04 15:55:05 2014 +0100 +++ b/handouts/ho03.tex Sun Oct 05 18:20:31 2014 +0100 @@ -23,6 +23,13 @@ free-riding script-kiddies who use this technology without knowing what are the underlying ideas. + +\bigskip +For buffer overflow attacks to work a number of innocent +design decisions, which are benign on their own, need to +conspire against you. One such design decision is how the +memory is laid out for each process. + \bigskip\bigskip \noindent If you want to know more about buffer overflow attacks, the original Phrack article ``Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit'' by Elias Levy (also