6.5.2 Buffer overflows 6.5.2 Examine software-development policies and procedures and interview responsible personnel to verify that buffer overflows are addressed by coding techniques that include:
- Validating buffer boundaries.
- Truncating input strings. Buffer overflows occur when an application does not have appropriate bounds checking on its buffer space. This can cause the information in the buffer
to be pushed out of the buffer’s memory space and into executable memory space. When this occurs, the attacker has the ability to insert malicious code at the end of the buffer and then push that malicious code into executable memory space by overflowing the buffer. The malicious code is then executed and often enables the attacker remote access to the application and/or infected system.