Buffer overflow or overrun?

From: Alberto Cozer (acozerat_private)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 09:20:54 PDT

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    Hello, All!
    
    I've been reading the last Microsoft advisories and one of the
    vulnerabilities descriptions made me
    think about buffer overrun.
    
    The description for the HTTP header delimiters vulnerability sounds
    like a buffer overflow, although
    it is described as a buffer overrun. And the differences between
    overflow and overrun are very well defined, but
    it seems that someone is forgetting it.
    
    I might be wrong, but what I understood from the technical description
    is that the problem regards to
    an overflow. Anyone have any idea on that, or knows the reason why it
    is described like that?
    
    
    
    Alberto Cozer
    Future Technologies Digital Security
    IBM Certified AIX System Specialist
    acozerat_private
    http://www.fti.com.br
    
    
    
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