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you asked for a teacup and poured in the ocean, so now the ocean is running your program.
means a bug where data written to a fixed-size memory block spills past its edges, overwriting whatever memory came next.
from comes from 1970s systems programming, where memory buffers were literal fixed-size boxes; the term became infamous after the 1988 morris worm exploited one to crash the early internet.
morris worm1988 worm used one, broke the internet
stack smashingclassic overflow overwrites the return address
still rankeddecades later, still a top cve category
c languagelets you write past array bounds silently