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Locating the Address of Local Variables to Achieve a Buffer Overflow

Zhiyuan An, Haiyan Liu

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Buffer overflow is a kind of serious security problem, it is due to lack of experience of programmers and testing is not brought, and is a relatively common form of hacking attacks. This article first explains the composition of the process in memory, the concept of a buffer overflow, and analyzes the principle of buffer overflow by example, Finally, an example is given, which achieves a buffer overflow by locating the address of local variables.

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Buffer overflow is a kind of serious security problem, it is due to lack of experience of programmers and testing is not brought, and is a relatively common form of hacking attacks. This article first explains the composition of the process in memory, the concept of a buffer overflow, and analyzes the principle of buffer overflow by example, Finally, an example is given, which achieves a buffer overflow by locating the address of local variables.

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Buffer overflow is a kind of serious security problem, it is due to lack of experience of programmers and testing is not brought, and is a relatively common form of hacking attacks. This article first explains the composition of the process in memory, the concept of a buffer overflow, and analyzes the principle of buffer overflow by example, Finally, an example is given, which achieves a buffer overflow by locating the address of local variables.

Key concepts: Buffer overflow, Computer science, Buffer (optical fiber), Process (computing), Hacker, Computer security, Distributed computing, Computer network

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