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{{Major glitches}}
'''Buffer overflow''' is a term used to describe when data is put in storage but errorsthe occursize whenof the namedata is excessively longlarge (for example: a text string over the maximum number of characters supported by the game).
 
The term could for example describe a [[glitch]] where data has an excessively long name and the name overflows to corrupt unrelated memory addresses, or the game copying more data than it is supposed to.