In
software engineering, a poison is a special value given to uninitialized or freed
memory; reading this memory provides only dummy data (however identifiable) or may cause the software to voluntarily be trapped (e.g.
pointer to nowhere). This is employed as a
security mechanism against
attacks and a way to detect
software failures.
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