CanaryValue.md (405B)
1 # Canary Value 2 3 CS202 SelfStudy 4 5 **Definition:** A canary value is used to detect buffer overflows by placing dummy data to be validated at some future time to ensure buffer overflows do not occur. 6 7 When doing this, we create dummy data in a sequential piece of memory and then at some future time validate the data stored there to ensure buffer overflows are not occuring as they would change this data.