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The \( C \) code shown above has a serious bug that opens the door for buffer overflow attacks. By watching the following two

The \( C \) code shown above has a serious bug that opens the door for buffer overflow attacks. By watching the following two Youtube videos (in fact, I asked you to watch the two optional videos in Week 4 last week), explain in detail: (1) why and how buffer overflow attacks can succeed; (2) how you can avoid the problem by modifying the code You will need to include the way how string is stored in a character array and how heap memory (or stack memroy) works in your answer. You will need to use at least 100 words in your answer


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Programming language violations and the overwriting of buffer boundaries are typical components of a buffer overflow attack.
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