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68: PHP's Dirty Little Segfault Secret: The "Stack Bomb"
Panelists:
Sara Golemon
Sara Golemon
October 20 2017

PHP is known for running really bad code really well. But it has a dirty little secret: deep within its code is a hidden "stack bomb". You can cause PHP to completely crash with just a few lines of code. Today we discuss why this happens and what we can d