The "classic" buffer overflow involves overwriting the return address by overflowing an array on stack. Low-fat pointers can protect against that problem [1].

The "classic" buffer overflow involves overwriting the return address by overflowing an array on stack. Low-fat pointers can protect against that problem [1]. [1]: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~gregory/papers/ndss17stack.pdf https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~gregory/papers/ndss17stack.pdf