What is a “memory stomp”?

Question

I just came across this blog post which mentions “stomping memory”:

a C++ program which is easily capable of stomping memory (something you prob

Answer 1

Very often it is a buffer overrun; as an example, this code:

char buffer[8];
buffer[8] = 'a';

will "stomp" on whatever happens to be in the next thing in memory after buffer. Generally speaking, 'stomping' is when memory is written to unintentionally.