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Buffer Overruns, Whats the Real Story?
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In its simplest terms, a buffer overrun is writing to more memory than was reserved.. Since this happens on the stack, an understanding of how the stack works is essiential to altering how a program works, during runtime (normally code isnt executed off the stack, and some OS's prevent it, as you can only execute from the code section and not the data section.
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