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Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit was a step by step introduction to exploiting stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities that was published in Phrack magazine by _________ .
 
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A __________ can occur as a result of a programming error when a process attempts to store data beyond the limits of a fixed-size buffer and consequently overwrites adjacent memory locations.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Aleph One

Answer to Question 2

Buffer overflow (can also accept buffer overrun or buffer overwrite as the answer)



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