Can there be too much of a good thing? That’s certainly true for computer input. Do an Internet search on the term buffer overflow, and you’ll come up with hundreds of thousands of links, most related ...

Buffer Overflow Attacks occur as a result of excess data being input into a system memory buffer. Moreover, when the memory buffer’s capacity has been reached, the music will stop playing. To avoid ...

A few weeks ago, we published a challenge relating to the exploitation of a simple buffer overflow in Linux. In the published solution, it was noted how it was possible to change the execution flow of ...

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...

Like so much malware before it, the dreaded Conficker worm spreads primarily through a type of software bug called a “buffer overflow” — a class of vulnerability first mass-exploited by the Morris ...

A classic buffer overflow exploit has been discovered in the Android software development kit (SDK) that impacts all versions of the Android Debug Bridge on Linux x86_64. The exploit scenario involved ...

An OpenSSL vulnerability once signaled as the first critical-level patch since the Internet-reshaping Heartbleed bug has just been patched. It ultimately arrived as a “high” security fix for a buffer ...

A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data copied into a memory buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the extra data will overwrite whatever is in the adjacent bytes, and those ...