Does writing program using global variables is safer?

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Published on 2012-04-09T17:01:36Z Indexed on 2012/04/09 17:30 UTC
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I was reading about buffer, stack and heap overflows. I read this post as well. my question is like that: if I use only global variables in my code, can I say it prevents all the exploits of overflow?

let's say I have this buffers in code declared in the global scope:

char buf1[10];
char buf2[100];

If I send buf1 as the buffer to recv(int s, char *buf, int len,int flags);

  1. I will overwrite the data segment and may ruin the buf2 content, right?
  2. Would I be able to run a code from it because as I know it is not a code segment and data segment is not executable.

Can we conclude that using Globals is the safest way?

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