A program has allocated 10 characters of space for user's response on a form. The application does not validate the number of characters that a user can input into the field before accepting the data.

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A program has allocated 10 characters of space for user's response on a form. The application does not validate the number of characters that a user can input into the field before accepting the data. Which type of attack Is the application vulnerable to?

Options

AOn hijacking
BBuffet overflow
CCross site scripting
DSQL Injection

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#buffer overflow#input validation#application vulnerability#memory security

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