http://update.proggen.org/ 2026-04-19T17:24:58+0200 http://update.proggen.org/ http://update.proggen.org/lib/tpl/proggenY/images/favicon.ico text/html 2022-09-22T19:39:27+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://update.proggen.org/doku.php?id=security:memory-corruption:background:exec&rev=1663868367 Program Execution Details Program Startup Upon startup, the executable file is loaded into the main memory. There are multiple executable file formats available, e.g. Linux uses the Extensible Linking Format (ELF) while current versions of Microsoft Windows rely on the Portable Executable (PE) file format and MacOS X uses a format called Mach-O. As Linux is the primary target of this tutorial, the remaining startup description focuses on the execution of ELF files on Linux-based operating syst… text/html 2022-09-22T19:39:27+0200 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://update.proggen.org/doku.php?id=security:memory-corruption:background:memory&rev=1663868367 Memory Types Memory contains the information processed in an application as well as the code of the application itself. Combining these two sets of information yields the state of an application. Modern computers make use of several different types of memory and caches organized in a hierarchy to enable high performance