problem about nop-Collection of common programming errors

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  amorimluc
  c assembly stack buffer-overflow nop
  I’ve been cracking my head open and can’t find a good source that answers this question. I know that a nop sled is a technique used to circumvent stack randomization in a buffer overflow attack, but I can’t get my head around how it works.What’s a simple example that illustrates this method?What do terms like 128-byte nop sled mean?

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