https://sandeep007734.github.io/tags/attacks/Recent content in Attacks on Sandeep KumarHugoen-usThu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0530https://sandeep007734.github.io/posts/attacks/bufferoverflow/Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0530https://sandeep007734.github.io/posts/attacks/bufferoverflow/<h2 id="buffer-overflow-attacks">Buffer overflow attacks</h2> <p>Buffer overflow attack basically means that the content provided by the user to an application has a bigger size than what the application was expecting. In this case, if the application did not handle this kind of situation, then the user provided content will overwrite the stack of the application. In most cases this will corrupt the stack and the program will end with a segmentation fault.</p>