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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

When you write code for a “runtime” that wasn’t intended to run your code.

That definition would be too broad, as includes any type of exploit.

In ROP, you modify the stack to write return addresses and then return to jump to the first of these addresses, the return addresses go to parts of the executable that end with a return instruction (gadgets), so it will always return to the next of your return address.

(That video is maybe not the easiest introduction to ROP.)

Having ROP in here as normal programming paradigm, as opposed to vibe coding, made the meme so much better.