omelette

Pluralomelettes

Formsomelettes, omeletting, omeletted

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A dish of beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, folded or flipped to cook through, and often filled or topped with cheese, herbs, or other ingredients.

   She whisked four eggs and poured them into the hot pan to make an omelette.

   A good omelette should be soft in the middle, not browned and dry.

2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To prepare beaten eggs by cooking them into an omelette.

   If you omelette the extra eggs, nothing goes to waste.

   The cook will omelette whatever fillings the diner chooses.

3. 3
   nouncountable

   A form of shellcode that searches a program's address space for multiple small blocks of data, known as 'eggs', and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.

   Like collecting separate parts of a message hidden in different places and joining them into one readable note.

   When no memory region was large enough, the developer wrote an omelette to stitch the eggs back together.

   The omelette scanned the address space and reassembled the fragments into an executable block.

   Note

   A security term that plays on its own name: the eggs are small blocks of data an attacker scatters through a program's memory, and the omelette is the code that searches for them and joins them into one larger block to run. It is used when no single gap in memory is big enough for all of the attack code at once.

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