> Thank you. I've seen that "buffer overflow" term on many lists,
> and I know it is something bad, but I don't know what it is
> unfortunately.
>
> Cheers.
Octavian, maybe these definitions will help.
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buffer
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N: A region of memory reserved for use as an intermediate repository in
which data is temporarily held while waiting to be transferred between two
locations, as between an application's data area and an input/output device.
A device or its adapter may in turn use a buffer to store data awaiting
transfer to the computer or processing by the device.
V: To use a region of memeory to hold data that is waiting to be
transferred, especially to or from input/output devices such as disk drives
and serial ports.
overflow
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1 - N: The condition that occurs when data resulting from input or
processing requires more bits than have been provided in hardware or
software to store the data. Examples of overflow include a floating-point
operation whose result is too large for the number of bits allowed for the
exponent, a string that exceeds the bounds of the array allocated for it, or
an integer operation whose result contains too many bits for the register
into which it is to be stored.
2 - N: The part of a data item that cannot be stored because the data
exceeds the capacity of the available data structure.
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