Ethical Hacking (part 5.1/20): Buffer Overflow explained with code

Maciej Zalwert
5 min readJul 5, 2021

Note: This article is being updated regularly. The latest update is as of 16/07/2021

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This article will cover:

  1. Introduction to computer memory and Buffer Overflow
  2. Buffer Overflow types
  3. Examples of Buffer Overflow in C/C++ code

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Maciej Zalwert

Data Scientist with 5+ years of broad-based experience in building data-intensive solutions for diverse industries