These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

We are now surrounding ourselves in our lives with little computers executing code.

And then the bad guys analyze the crash and figure out a way to execute code instead.

Oh, look, we're able to execute code that wasn't meant to be executed if we give it a negative number.

Most of the time, they execute code on the client.

Because if you can't execute code in the data area, doesn't that prevent that kind of attack?

Yep, the ability to execute code without a user agreeing to it.

In order to replicate itself, a virus must be permitted to execute code and write to memory.

That's why you have this feature in Windows where you can't execute code out of the data stack.

Defender has a bug in it that will allow a bad guy to remotely execute code on your system?