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MEDHA Musku
MEDHA Musku

Reputation: 11

Segmentation fault (core dumped) consequences

If we get the output as segmentation fault core dumped. It describes some intruder action. What will be the consequences when segmentation fault occurs?

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user1600649
user1600649

Reputation:

It does not describe some intruder action. It means the program tried to access a part of memory (also called a "segment") it has no access to.

Intruders can make use of segmentation faults. But the program is at fault and should be fixed. What the intruder can do with it, depends a lot on the program and under what privileges it runs.

The "core dumped" part means that the program's memory has been dumped to disk for analysis (with tools like gdb).

More about segmentation faults here.

Upvotes: 1

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