How security flaws work: The buffer overflow
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 12:26 am
For those who may not be aware how this long used flaw is used. It also gives an incite into how computers use the various memory areas and structure.
To understand why buffer overflows happen—and why their impact is so grave—we need to understand a little about how programs use memory and a little more about how programmers write their code. (Note that we'll look primarily at the stack buffer overflow. It's not the only kind of overflow issue, but it's the classic, best-known kind.)
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