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what is a buffer overflow attack

attacker writes more than what is expected into a particular area of memory and that additional info overflows into another area of memory

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who does bounds checking

developer

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what is bounds checking

check is anyone writing into a section of memory is only writing 8 bytes and nothing more

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a useful buffer overflow is what

repeatable

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what happens to the system if there is a buffer overflow

system crashes