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A classical programming bug that may lead to a possible security flaw in software. Exploitation of this bug is usually taking place either in the stack or in the heap.

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Why does this piece of code modify itself?

Q1 The paper was written in 1996 (published on 8 November 1996 to be exact). In those days, it was the norm for the stack to be executable. In fact, x86 CPUs of that era basically lacked the capabili …
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