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Buffer Overflow Attack

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A method of overloading a predefined amount of space in a buffer, which can potentially overwrite and corrupt data in memory.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Threat95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Buffer Overflow Attacks
possessive: Buffer Overflow Attack's
pluralpossessive: Buffer Overflow Attacks'

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