Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are created when a developer fails to appropriately manage memory for user-controlled data. If a user can put more data into a pre-allocated memory buffer than the buffer can hold, they can dramatically impact the operation of a program. User input and memory management Every piece of data on a computer that is used by a program has to be stored somewhere. When a program is running, this “somewhere” is either the stack or the heap....