Exam 10: Buffer Overflow

_________ aim to prevent or detect buffer overflows by instrumenting programs when they are compiled.

An essential component of many buffer overflow attacks is the transfer of execution to code,known as _______,supplied by the attacker and often saved in the buffer being overflowed.

The first widely used occurrence of the buffer overflow attack was the _______.

_______ can be placed between stack frames or between different allocations on the heap to provide further protection against stack and heap overflow attacks,but at cost in execution time supporting the large number of page mappings necessary.

_______ was one of the earliest operating systems written in a high-level language.