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Stack Canaries, DEP, and ASLR: Building Layers Against Memory Exploitation

Stack canaries, non-executable memory, and address-space randomization changed memory-corruption defense from patching individual bugs to making entire exploit techniques less reliable.

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Stack Smashing and the Security Crisis Hidden Inside Unsafe Memory

Aleph One's 1996 explanation of stack smashing gave a generation of programmers a concrete model of how an out-of-bounds write could become control-flow hijacking, helping drive compiler and operating-system defenses against memory corruption.

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