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If the canary word has been altered when the function returns, and the program responds by emitting an intrude

A simple compiler technique used by programmers is to add a terminator ‘canary word’ containing four letters NULL (0x00), CR (0x0d), LF (0x0a) and EOF (0xff) so that most string operations are terminated. If the canary word has been altered when the function returns, and the program responds by emitting an intruder alert into syslog, and then halts what does it indicate?