Buffer
Overflow Intro. ©2002, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Susan L. Gerhart, Jan G.
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What is a buffer?
An
example of a buffer:
•A place to fill in your last name on a form where each character has
one box. SMITH fills five boxes, GALLERDO
fills eight.
Techie
Nomenclature: a “buffer is used loosely to refer to any area of memory where more than
on
piece of data are stored.