"shatter attack" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shatter attacks [plural]
Etymology: Coined in a 2002 paper by Chris Paget: "Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation". Head templates: {{en-noun}} shatter attack (plural shatter attacks)
  1. (computing, Microsoft Windows) 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. Wikipedia link: shatter attack Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-shatter_attack-en-noun-keyKGWM5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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