Buffer
Overflow Intro. ©2002, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Susan L. Gerhart, Jan G.
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A computer buffer overflow –
attacker treachery ahead
A computer allocates a
buffer of memory to store ten integers. An attacker gives the computer 11
integers as input. Whatever was right after the buffer in memory gets overwritten
with the 11th integer.
Techie nomenclature:
actually an integer is stored in 4 bytes, but that’s not
significant to the story.