Undefined behaviour, out of bounds memory access, memory corruption, code injection, privilege escalation...
To be precise, the CPU is doing exactly what's supposed to do, but the logic of the algorithms are subverted so that they perform in unintended ways to give leverage to a malicious actor. I hope this clarifies what I meant with this.
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Undefined behaviour, out of bounds memory access, memory corruption, code injection, privilege escalation...
To be precise, the CPU is doing exactly what's supposed to do, but the logic of the algorithms are subverted so that they perform in unintended ways to give leverage to a malicious actor. I hope this clarifies what I meant with this.