This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Dumping too much data into a predefined area of computer memory is not unlike pouring too much water into a bucket or flushing too much tissue down a toilet. In all cases, there ...

Buffer Overflow Attacks occur as a result of excess data being input into a system memory buffer. Moreover, when the memory buffer’s capacity has been reached, the music will stop playing. To avoid ...