buffer overflow meaning

• [Computer]
  <programming> What happens when you try to store more data in a buffer than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see overrun and firehose syndrome), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and overwrites data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full.
  
  See also spam, overrun screw.

• buffer overflow checking is now on by default
• The exception thrown when the internal buffer overflows
• The device response caused buffer overflow
• buffer overflows are the cause of many a security bug
• The device re o e caused buffer overflow
• Occurs when the internal buffer overflows
• The tao of windows buffer overflow
• To avoid a buffer overflow, use the
• An input buffer overflow has occurred
• Provides a discussion of buffer overflows and how to exploit them

• "buffer overflow" meaning in Chinese: 缓冲器溢出
• "buffer overflow" meaning in Japanese: バッファあふれ◆バッファと呼ばれる通常のメモリ?ブロックより上位のメモリアドレスに書き込みが行われることで、長すぎる...
• "buffer overflow" meaning in Russian: переполнение буферного ЗУ