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Buffer overflow

Historical concept · local-technique:buffer-overflow

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Writing outside a buffer boundary can corrupt adjacent data or control state.

Bounds validation, memory-safe implementation and layered runtime protection.

No sole inventor asserted. Anderson1972 is an earlier located bounds/control analysis; this1996article is exposition.

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Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit — Aleph One (expository author). This is a publication record, not an origin or invention claim.

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  "id": "local-technique:buffer-overflow",
  "title": "Buffer overflow",
  "type": "Historical concept",
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  "source_url": "https://phrack.org/issues/49/smashing-the-stack-for-fun-and-profit",
  "description": "Writing outside a buffer boundary can corrupt adjacent data or control state.",
  "defensive_context": "Bounds validation, memory-safe implementation and layered runtime protection.",
  "publication": {
    "id": "local-publication:buffer-overflow-milestone",
    "entity_type": "Publication",
    "title": "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit",
    "source_url": "https://phrack.org/issues/49/smashing-the-stack-for-fun-and-profit",
    "publication_date": "1996-11-08",
    "publisher": "Phrack",
    "credit_display": "Aleph One",
    "credit_role": "expository author"
  },
  "mappings": [
    {
      "target_id": "CWE-120",
      "relation": "specific classic unchecked-copy weakness",
      "status": "research-supplied conceptual mapping; target exists in imported taxonomy; semantic review pending"
    },
    {
      "target_id": "CWE-121",
      "relation": "stack-based subtype",
      "status": "research-supplied conceptual mapping; target exists in imported taxonomy; semantic review pending"
    }
  ],
  "uncertainty": "No sole inventor asserted. Anderson1972 is an earlier located bounds/control analysis; this1996article is exposition.",
  "rights": "Original concise metadata and linked references; no full paper or payload imported",
  "review_status": "Editorial historical seed; conceptual mappings remain explicitly provisional"
}

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