buffer overflow
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anomaly in computer security and programming that could be exploited as a security vulnerability
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Visualization of a software buffer overflow. Data is written into A, but is too large to fit within A, so it overflows into B.
In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.
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