Although a few positives came from this attack ... A buffer overflow happens when a program writes data beyond the memory assigned to it and into a contiguously located memory block intended ...

Writing beyond the extents of an array is a well-known attack method, known as a buffer overflow. It can be tremendously ... These instructions essentially act to block speculative execution ...

The Stack Region A stack is a contiguous block of memory ... Magazine (see Resources). Buffer Overflow Countermeasures The solutions proposed for buffer overflow problems mainly target the prevention ...