Cyber Security Essentials

exploitAtion 129

that the last datum added (or “pushed”) to the stack is the first datum

pulled (or “popped”) from the stack. In the Intel implementation of

a stack and various other processor platforms, local functions use the

stack for temporary variable storage, parameter passing, and code flow

execution management. Exhibit 3-7 illustrates the typical layout for

an Intel stack used to call a function and the called function.

e Intel x86 processor uses two special registers for stack man-

agement: the stack pointer (ESP) and the base pointer (EBP). e

processor uses the stack pointer to specify the memory address of

the last memory pushed on ...