Umer

• Feb 16th, 2014

 

The best answer would be an implementation bug. Although design flaw can also be considered. A buffer overflow basically overwrites adjacent memory so is a memory violation. A programmer not taking care of memory issues while coding can easily write a poorly coded application which overruns the buffer. A less knowledgeable designer could however ask the programmer to write a simple application with no idea of what poor coding practices might result in.