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Practical C Programming

You're reading from   Practical C Programming Solutions for modern C developers to create efficient and well-structured programs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838641108
Length 616 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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B. M. Harwani B. M. Harwani
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Preface 1. Working with Arrays 2. Managing Strings FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Functions 4. Preprocessing and Compilation 5. Deep Dive into Pointers 6. File Handling 7. Implementing Concurrency 8. Networking and Inter-Process Communication 9. Sorting and Searching 10. Working with Graphs 11. Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms 12. Creativity with Graphics 13. Using MySQL Database 14. General-Purpose Utilities 15. Improving the Performance of Your Code 16. Low-Level Programming 17. Embedded Software and IoT 18. Applying Security in Coding 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Buffer overflow

The most common vulnerability in C programming is buffer overflows. The buffer, as the name suggests, represents a temporary area of memory storage in the RAM that a program uses to run itself. Usually, all the variables used in a program are assigned temporary buffer storage for keeping the values assigned to them. Some functions don't limit the data within the buffer boundaries while assigning larger values (larger than the assigned buffer) to the variables, leading to overflowing of the buffer. The overflowing data corrupts or overwrites data of other buffers.

These buffer overflows might be used by hackers or malicious users to damage files or data or to extract sensitive information. That is, an attacker might enter such an input that leads to buffer overflows.

While assigning values to an array, there are no bounds checks and the code might work, whether...
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