smashing the stack

Verb

smash the stack (third-person singular simple present smashes the stack, present participle smashing the stack, simple past and past participle smashed the stack)

1. (informal) To corrupt the call stack, causing execution to jump to a random address, sometimes used as a malicious attack on a system.
   • There's something interesting about this approach — we haven't smashed the stack, so some mechanisms that might guard the stack won't notice...2003, Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, Writing Secure Code