An attacker manipulates a data buffer to change the execution flow of a
						process to a sequence of events the attacker controls. Data buffers in
						software applications provide a storage-space for external input. Buffer
						attacks provide input the buffer cannot correctly handle. Buffer attacks are
						distinguished in that it is the buffer space itself that is the target of
						the attack rather than any code responsible for interpreting the content of
						the buffer. In virtually all buffer attacks the content that is placed in
						the buffer by the user is immaterial. Instead, most buffer attacks involve
						providing more input than the buffer can store, resulting in the overwriting
						of other program memory or even the program stack with user supplied
						input.