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Which of these is most likely being used to perform a buffer overflow?
message = "Hello world"
buf = "A"
buf = "A" * 3000
message = "buffer overflow"
buf = "A" * 3000 is creating a string of 3000 "A" characters, and such a large number of characters can be used to fill a buffer and then continue to write into memory if the buffer's bounds are not correctly set, leading to a buffer overflow.
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