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Comment by ams6110

7 years ago

Depends on what we mean by crash.

If program gives up and exits on receipt of unexpected input, that can be perceived as a "crash" by the user but it's not exploitable.

If it's crashing because execution suddenly jumped somewhere it shouldn't be, and the OS killed it, that's more worriesome.

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