The Morris worm of 1988 was one of those industry-shaking experiences that revealed how quickly a worm could spread using a vulnerability known as a buffer overflow or buffer overrun. Around 6,000 of ...

Buffer overflow problems always have been associated with security vulnerabilities. In the past, lots of security breaches have occurred due to buffer overflow. This article attempts to explain what ...

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 ...

Patches are available for buffer overflow bugs in Yokogawa production control software. Public exploits are available for the vulnerabilities, as well as a Metasploit module. Patches for critical ...

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 ...

this proposal is about adding an option to the DebugAllocator, which allows a marker to be added to the end of the allocated memory, which is used to detect if an operation overwrote the buffer length ...

A person who we think is a lady with her HP printer in happier times. HP has confirmed that a large number of its printer models are vulnerable to a new "Critical" buffer overflow bug with a CVSS ...

Cisco has released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software that is currently being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-20352, the flaw ...