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teo_zerotoday at 7:02 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm glad someone else asked. :)

It's not so widely used and it's not explained in the first couple screenfuls of TFA (which by itself is weirdly structured, taking entire paragraphs to explain when it was introduced, when it was discovered, etc. before even explaining what it actually is).

Of course the title was chosen when the article was first published on a site dedicated to security, where probably everyone knows it. This suggests that insisting on unmodified titles when republishing in HN is a poor rule.


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lkirkwoodtoday at 5:53 PM

Not that everyone should know it but it's definitely widely used. A Google search for "stack UAF" also turns it up.