Let suppose a search box of an application can take at most 200 words, and you’ve inserted more than that and pressed the search button; the system crashes. Usually this is because of limited __________

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A buffer overflow occurs when a program tries to write more data to a buffer than the buffer can hold. This can happen when copying data from one buffer to another without first checking that the data fits. The extra data overwrites data values in memory addresses next to the destination buffer. This can corrupt or overwrite the data in those locations.


Let suppose a search box of an application can take at most 200 words, and you’ve inserted more than that and pressed the search button; the system crashes. Usually this is because of limited __________