# Alexander Peslyak

> Alexander Peslyak, better known as Solar Designer, is a security specialist from Russia. He is best known for his publications on exploitation techniques, including the return-to-libc attack and the first generic heap-based buffer overflow exploitation technique, as well as computer security protection techniques such as privilege separation for daemon processes.

*Russian computer security specialist*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/alexander-peslyak

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 1977
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 40.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 5.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 35.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 40.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Solar Designer](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer)
- [Александър Песляк](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA)
- [Solar Designer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer)
- [Aleksandr Pieslak](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Pieslak)
- [Solar Designer](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Designer)
- [Alexander Peslyak](https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Peslyak)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615637)

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