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In general usage, an overflow occurs when the volume of a substance exceeds the capacity of its intended container. A river in flood, for instance, may "overflow its banks". It is also used in a metaphorical sense, as "overflowing with enthusiasm."In telecommunication, the term overflow has the following meanings:
- 1. In telephony, the generation of potential traffic that exceeds the capacity of a communications system or subsystem.
- 2. In telephony, a count of telephone call attempts made on groups of busy trunks or access lines.
- 3. In telephony, traffic handled by overflow equipment.
- 4. In telephony, traffic that exceeds the capacity of the switching equipment and is therefore lost.
- 5. In telephony, on a particular route, excess traffic that is offered to another route, i.e. , an alternate route.
In digital computing, the terms overflow is synonym for arithmetic overflow.
In digital communications, the condition that exists when the incoming data rate exceeds that which can be accommodated by a buffer, resulting in the loss of information. This gives rise to the phenomenon of the buffer overflow, providing an exploitAn exploit is a common term in the computer security community to refer to a piece of software that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability, leading to privilege escalation or denial of service on a computer system. There are several methods of, a vulnerability allowing unauthorised escalation of privilege escalation on a computer system.
Reference
- Federal Standard 1037CFederal Standard 1037C entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a U. Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. This docu
- MIL-STD-188MIL-STD-188 is a series of U. military standards relating to telecommunications. Documents 100 Common Long Haul and Tactical Communication System Technical Standards. 105 Interoperability and Performance Standards for the All Digital Tactical-To-Strategic
