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Stack Frames: A Look From Inside
Giuseppe Di Cataldo
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Description for Stack Frames: A Look From Inside
Paperback. Num Pages: 171 pages, 61 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UMA; UR; UYF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 258 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
Teaches you exactly how program memory content and organization is vital for computer security, especially Unix-like operating systems. You will learn how it is manipulated to take control of a computer system, as well as the countermeasures that system designers set up to avoid this. Neither a guide for hackers nor an all-out theory book, this book is ideal for anyone studying computer security who wants to learn by doing. Using a practical approach, you will understand how stack frames relate to hardware and software theory and the various GNU/Linux distributions, before ... Read more
Teaches you exactly how program memory content and organization is vital for computer security, especially Unix-like operating systems. You will learn how it is manipulated to take control of a computer system, as well as the countermeasures that system designers set up to avoid this. Neither a guide for hackers nor an all-out theory book, this book is ideal for anyone studying computer security who wants to learn by doing. Using a practical approach, you will understand how stack frames relate to hardware and software theory and the various GNU/Linux distributions, before ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Apress
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Berkley, United States
ISBN
9781484221808
SKU
V9781484221808
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99-15
About Giuseppe Di Cataldo
Giuseppe Di Cataldo is a software programmer from Catania, Italy. After having studied civil engineering at Catania University, he worked as a civil engineer for many years, then as a programmer, writing software for engineers. This led him to learn programming languages (notably Fortran, Pascal, C, Assembly) as well as to work on both Unix workstations and common PCs equipped ... Read more
Reviews for Stack Frames: A Look From Inside
I can recommend the book to anyone who wants to understand the structure of stack frames and the mechanisms that might be used to launch buffer-overflow attacks. (G. K. Jenkins, Computing Reviews, June, 2017)