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What is a Buffer Overflow?

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Jim Caple
Caple Technologies, LLC
Posted on May 19, 2010
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A buffer overflow is an event that occurs when a program tries to put too much information into a buffer. Since buffers have limited space, the extra information is considered ""overflow"" and an error occurs.

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