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“Out of bounds write” means buffer overflow?

• Someone 4y ago
  I would interpret that as more generic than buffer overflow. “Buffer overflow”, for me, is for when you read or write a short distance before or after a buffer (typically because your looping over it and got your ending condition wrong). “Out of bounds write”, for me, also includes when you read or write basically anywhere (say a function you call overwrites your local pointer to a buffer with ‘random’ bits, and you then use the corrupted pointer to read or write data)
  • nr2x 4y ago
    Gotcha, thanks.