English Explanatory Dictionary

shatter attack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.

Word forms

shatter attack shatter attacks

Etymology

Coined in a paper in 2002 by Chris Paget: Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.

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