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 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 ...

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Buffer overflow is a software bug or vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems. It is one of the ...

Research from Oligo claims the vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit allow manipulation of logs, bypassing authentication, and the ...

Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron and Athlon 64 processors can detect a commonly used attack against PCs connected to the Internet and render it harmless by blocking malicious code from executing, AMD ...

Researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has reported another URI abuse exploit. From Security Focus: Novell GroupWise is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate ...

The discovery and disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Sendmail e-mail software by Atlanta based security giant Internet Security Systems (ISS) is starving another vulnerability of the ...

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 ...

In response to Kae Verens’s letter (2 September, p 18), I feel I must point out that the letter from me he was commenting on (12 August, p 18) seemed to be edited such that it did not entirely ...