Computer Weekly

Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, Chapter 7 -- Buffer Overflow

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Ivanti Avalanche impacted by critical pre-auth stack buffer overflows

Two stack-based buffer overflows collectively tracked as CVE-2023-32560 impact Ivanti Avalanche, an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution designed to manage, monitor, and secure a wide range ...

Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall RCE zero-day exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks warned customers today that a critical-severity unpatched vulnerability in the PAN-OS User-ID ...