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Buffer overflow
In
computer security
and
programming
, 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
locations. This is a special case of the violation of
memory safety
.
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