Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow - anomaly in computer security and programming that could be exploited as a security vulnerability. Article "Buffer overflow" in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Buffer overflow", its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1195 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1877 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #251 in December 2023
• Global: #81 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #27831 in December 2024
• Global: #21313 in April 2009

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Buffer overflow		63.6396
2	Japanese (ja) バッファオーバーフロー		57.7581
3	Turkish (tr) Arabellek aşımı		49.0922
4	Russian (ru) Переполнение буфера		44.5614
5	Greek (el) Υπερχείλιση προσωρινής μνήμης		36.5786
6	Italian (it) Buffer overflow		35.4496
7	Vietnamese (vi) Lỗi tràn bộ nhớ đệm		35.3428
8	Korean (ko) 버퍼 오버플로		30.0671
9	German (de) Pufferüberlauf		24.2299
10	French (fr) Dépassement de tampon		20.68

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Buffer overflow" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Buffer overflow		4 078 118
2	German (de) Pufferüberlauf		555 015
3	Spanish (es) Desbordamiento de búfer		478 721
4	Japanese (ja) バッファオーバーフロー		476 711
5	Russian (ru) Переполнение буфера		389 479
6	French (fr) Dépassement de tampon		380 165
7	Chinese (zh) 缓冲区溢出		189 104
8	Italian (it) Buffer overflow		189 050
9	Portuguese (pt) Transbordamento de dados		167 571
10	Korean (ko) 버퍼 오버플로		157 215

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Buffer overflow" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Buffer overflow		7 883
2	Japanese (ja) バッファオーバーフロー		701
3	German (de) Pufferüberlauf		563
4	Russian (ru) Переполнение буфера		533
5	Spanish (es) Desbordamiento de búfer		494
6	French (fr) Dépassement de tampon		448
7	Chinese (zh) 缓冲区溢出		434
8	Italian (it) Buffer overflow		295
9	Simple English (simple) Buffer overflow		235
10	Korean (ko) 버퍼 오버플로		182

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Buffer overflow" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Buffer overflow		330
2	German (de) Pufferüberlauf		114
3	French (fr) Dépassement de tampon		109
4	Japanese (ja) バッファオーバーフロー		74
5	Italian (it) Buffer overflow		67
6	Russian (ru) Переполнение буфера		60
7	Spanish (es) Desbordamiento de búfer		50
8	Hebrew (he) גלישת חוצץ		49
9	Polish (pl) Przepełnienie bufora		34
10	Chinese (zh) 缓冲区溢出		32

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Buffer overflow" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Buffer overflow		1
2	Polish (pl) Przepełnienie bufora		1
3	Arabic (ar) تجاوز سعة المخزن المؤقت		0
4	Catalan (ca) Desbordament del buffer		0
5	Czech (cs) Přetečení bufferu		0
6	German (de) Pufferüberlauf		0
7	Greek (el) Υπερχείλιση προσωρινής μνήμης		0
8	English (en) Buffer overflow		0
9	Spanish (es) Desbordamiento de búfer		0
10	Basque (eu) Buffer gainezkatze		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Buffer overflow" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) バッファオーバーフロー		294
2	English (en) Buffer overflow		279
3	French (fr) Dépassement de tampon		201
4	Chinese (zh) 缓冲区溢出		195
5	Korean (ko) 버퍼 오버플로		117
6	German (de) Pufferüberlauf		93
7	Russian (ru) Переполнение буфера		93
8	Spanish (es) Desbordamiento de búfer		67
9	Italian (it) Buffer overflow		61
10	Ukrainian (uk) Переповнення буфера		58

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تجاوز سعة المخزن المؤقت
ca	Catalan Desbordament del buffer
cs	Czech Přetečení bufferu
de	German Pufferüberlauf
el	Greek Υπερχείλιση προσωρινής μνήμης
en	English Buffer overflow
es	Spanish Desbordamiento de búfer
eu	Basque Buffer gainezkatze
fa	Persian سرریز بافر
fi	Finnish Puskurin ylivuotovirhe
fr	French Dépassement de tampon
he	Hebrew גלישת חוצץ
hu	Hungarian Puffertúlcsordulás
id	Indonesian Luapan penyangga
it	Italian Buffer overflow
ja	Japanese バッファオーバーフロー
ko	Korean 버퍼 오버플로
nl	Dutch Bufferoverloop
no	Norwegian Bufferoverskridelse
pl	Polish Przepełnienie bufora
pt	Portuguese Transbordamento de dados
ru	Russian Переполнение буфера
simple	Simple English Buffer overflow
sk	Slovak Pretečenie vyrovnávacej pamäte
sv	Swedish Buffertöverskridning
tr	Turkish Arabellek aşımı
uk	Ukrainian Переповнення буфера
vi	Vietnamese Lỗi tràn bộ nhớ đệm
zh	Chinese 缓冲区溢出

Best Rank

Simple English: #27831 12.2024

Global: #21313 04.2009

Best Rank

Simple English: #251 12.2023

Global: #81 01.2002

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