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Comments on What is the difference between a hook and a code injection?

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What is the difference between a hook and a code injection?

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I would define a hook as:

A piece of code which changes the response to a certain event, without changing the original code that caused the event

How is that different than "code injection", if at all?

AFAIK, both terms are quite common in software development.

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elgonzo‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago
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This is a bit like asking: How is a flower different from a plant? Hooking is a technique that can be used for code injection. But not all techniques for code injection are hooks. For example, buffer overflow bugs or specially crafted malicious input data can be exploited to inject code, yet they are not hooks. (Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_injection)

Lundin‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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Also, all hooks are not used for code injection.

meriton‭ wrote about 4 years ago · edited about 4 years ago
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Since words often mean different things in different contexts, please be sure to clearly convey the context you are asking about: What does SD stand for? Service Design?

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r~~‭ wrote about 4 years ago
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@meriton (On the Software Development site, can we assume that's what SD stands for?)

deleted user wrote about 4 years ago
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@elgonzo, I think your comment should be an answer ; you might even want to sum some of it as "every hook is a code injection but not every code injection is a hook".