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A buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory.

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Are buffer overflows pretty much a thing of the past in 2020

After learning about buffer overflows: In the 90's finding a buffer overflow nearly always meant you could exploit it. Nowadays there are a lot of protection mechanisms like address layout space rando …
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