A critical security vulnerability occurs when a program overflows a buffer in the call stack, corrupting adjacent data. Attackers exploit this to hijack control flow, injecting malicious code. Developers and security analysts study stack smashing to implement defenses like canaries and ASLR, protecting software from remote code execution and system compromise.
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