Buffer
Overflow Causes. ©2002, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Susan L. Gerhart, Jan G.
Hogle.
http://sfsecurity.pr.erau.edu
What can cause buffer overflows?
•Careless use of buffers without bounds checking.
•Formatting and logical errors.
•Unsafe library function calls.
•Off-by-one errors.
•Old code used for new purposes (like UNICODE international
characters).
•All sorts of other far-fetched but deadly-serious things you should think about.