Call Stack - buffer overflow vulnerability
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Buffer overflows are a kind of call stack vulnerability that occur when buffers are created on the stack, but accessed improperly. Buffer underruns are typically not so dangerous, because writing in the current stack frame or beyond the stack pointer will only affect local variables on that stack frame. On the other side, buffer overruns can allow the attacker to overwrite the return address and thus even modify the program’s behavior.
