NOP sled

English

Etymology

See nop (“no operation”).

Noun

NOP sled (plural NOP sleds)

  1. (programming) 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.
    Synonym: NOP slide
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