CWE-121

• CWE ID
• 121

• CWE Name
• Stack-based Buffer Overflow

• CWE Abstraction
• Variant

• CWE structure
• Simple

• CWE Status
• Draft

A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).