Glossary: Attacks and Indicators
buffer overflow
Writing more data into a piece of memory than it was given, so the extra overwrites whatever lies next to it. overflow.c shows this by copying 40 A's into a 16-byte buffer.
Glossary: Attacks and Indicators
Writing more data into a piece of memory than it was given, so the extra overwrites whatever lies next to it. overflow.c shows this by copying 40 A's into a 16-byte buffer.