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What can trigger a buffer overflow?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

A buffer overflow occurs when a program attempts to write data to a buffer, but exceeds the boundaries of the buffer, similar to Java's "Array Out of Bounds Exception." This could happen with poorly written code that fails to check for the end of the buffer, or it could be exploited maliciously. One exploitative example would be a stack buffer overflow, in which data is copied to a local variable on the stack. But if the data is larger than the local variable can contain, the extra data will "spill over" onto nearby memory. This would allow one to overwrite data that was not intended to be altered.

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