![What is going on here? Why do we get a segmentation violation? Simple. strcpy() is coping the contents of *str (larger_string[]) into buffer[]
until a null character is found on the string. As we can see buffer[] is
much smaller than *str. buffer[] is 16 bytes long, and we are trying to stuff
it with 256 bytes. This means that all 250 bytes after buffer in the stack
are being overwritten!](https://i.imgur.com/kIvJaug.png "What is going on here? Why do we get a segmentation violation? Simple. strcpy() is coping the contents of *str (larger_string[]) into buffer[]
until a null character is found on the string. As we can see buffer[] is
much smaller than *str. buffer[] is 16 bytes long, and we are trying to stuff
it with 256 bytes. This means that all 250 bytes after buffer in the stack
are being overwritten!")
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What is going on here? Why do we get a segmentation violation? Simple. strcpy() is coping the contents of *str (larger_string[]) into buffer[]
until a null character is found on the string. As we can see buffer[] is
much smaller than *str. buffer[] is 16 bytes long, and we are trying to stuff
it with 256 bytes. This means that all 250 bytes after buffer in the stack
are being overwritten!