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Buffer Overflow

Principles

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• If function does not perform bound-check when writing to array, overflowing it
  • bound check is if size <= array size

Buffer flow can lead to ?

• corruption of stack data
  • Values (local vars, registers)
  • Return address
  • Stack smashing
• Vulnerable to attacks
  • Code injection

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Created:: 2022-03-14 03:07