What is stack overflow attack?

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1. #deliberately
2. #caused
3. #fixed
4. #stack
5. #overrun
6. #smashing
7. #intended
8. #length
9. #which
10. #attack
11. #structure
12. #buffer
13. #software
14. #overflow
15. #memory
16. #outside
17. #occurs
18. #program
19. #address
20. #writes
21. #known
22. #usually