English Explanatory Dictionary

NOP sled

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc. to increase the chances of any random instruction access executing the sequence that follows.

Word forms

NOP sled NOP sleds

Etymology

See nop (“no operation”).

Synonyms

NOP slide
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