What is a stack overrun?
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When a process executes in kernel mode it has a small finite amount of memory for recording it's call stack. In most cases it is enough but sometimes there are call stacks that get a bit greedy and use up all the available memory. There's no hard limit to stop the call stack growing beyond it's reserved space so it can write over other data in memory as it grows.
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