CSOonline

What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This ...
sei.cmu

COVERT: A Framework for Finding Buffer Overflows in C Programs via Software Verification

In this report, the authors present COVERT, an automated framework for finding buffer overflows in C programs using software verification tools and techniques. Buffer overflows continue to be the ...
WeLiveSecurity

Exploiting 1-byte buffer overflows

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 ...
Computer Weekly

Spectre variant gives buffer overflow a new twist

Security researchers Vladimir Kiriansky and Carl Waldspurger have uncovered two buffer-overflow derivatives of the Spectre microprocessor bug. In a paper describing the flaws – dubbed Spectre 1.1 and ...
PC Magazine

buffer overflow

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 ...
Threat Post

Buffer Overflow in BSD libc Library Patched

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The BSD libc library was updated recently to address ...