smash the stack (English, verb)
expansion: smash the stack (third-person singular simple present smashes the stack, present participle smashing the stack, simple past and past participle smashed the stack)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
tags: informal
Forms:
form: smashes the stack
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smashing the stack
tags: participle
present
form: smashed the stack
tags: participle
past
form: smashed the stack
tags: past