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Buffer-overflow is a common computer security concern. Write a simple program, in C, C++, and Java, to declare a simple one-dimensional array and then attempt to access an array element that is not within its bounds. For example, what happens if I declare an array to be in studentNums[10] and then attempt to access studentNums[11], studentNums[12], or ..., studentNums[100]?

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Buffer-overflow is a common computer security concern. The solution writes a simple program in C, C++ and Java to declare a simple one-dimensional array. It then accesses the array elements that is not within its bounds.

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Problem: Buffer-overflow is a common computer security concern. Write a simple program, in C, C++, and Java, to declare a simple one-dimensional array and then attempt to access an array element that is not within its bounds. For example, what happens if I declare an array to be in studentNums[10] and then attempt to access studentNums[11], studentNums[12], or ..., studentNums[100]?

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