Explore: Return Address

In postal mail, a return address is an explicit inclusion of the address of the person sending the message. It provides the recipient (and sometimes authorized

as its return address. The return address is saved by the calling routine, today usually on the process's call stack or in a register. Return statements

A return address on a piece of mail identifies where to return it to if it cannot be sent to the address. The term may also refer to: Bounce address, a

"locals" in the stack diagram to the right) and overwrite the return address. This address will later be used by the function to redirect control flow back

used universally, including return path, reverse path, envelope from, envelope sender, MAIL FROM, 5321-FROM, return address, From_, Errors-to, etc. It

A "return-to-libc" attack is a computer security attack usually starting with a buffer overflow in which a subroutine return address on a call stack is

where to return when its execution completes. To accomplish this, the address following the instruction that jumps to DrawLine, the return address, is pushed

a shadow stack is a mechanism for protecting a procedure's stored return address, such as from a stack buffer overflow. The shadow stack itself is a

machines to have a subroutine call instruction that saved the return address in a stack addressed by an accumulator or index register. The later PDP-10 (1966)

the addresses can be loaded indirectly from the return address LDX I 1 SUB Load X1 with the address of the first argument (for example) ... * Return sequence