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What is the difference between a stack overflow and buffer overflow?

What is different between stack overflow and buffer overflow in Programming ?
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Stack Overflow Exploit in C

Hey there guys, the question is actually about stack overflows in C. I have an assigment that I can not get done for the life of me, I've looked at everything in the gdb and I just cant figure it. ...
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return to libc - problem

I'm having problems with return-to-libc exploit. The problem is that nothing happens, but no segmentation fault (and yes I'm actually overflowing the stack). This is my program: int main(int argc, ...
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Is there any way to bypass SSP (StackSmashing Protection)/Propolice?

After some research i haven't found any paper describing method to do this (no even an unreliable one). It seems that SSP (StackSmashing Protection)/Propolice
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Smashing the stack example3.c confusion

Article can be found here. I'm reading up on smashing the stack and have found myself to be getting stuck on example3.c. 0x80004a3 <main+19>: call 0x8000470 <function> 0x80004a8 ...