apache/arrow#40043 fixes exporting empty string arrays by exporting a non-empty offset buffer. However, the offset buffer is not properly initialized. The first byte of the offset buffer may not be 0 ...

If you program in C, strings are just in your imagination. What you really have is a character pointer, and we all agree that a string is every character from that point up until one of the characters ...

During an attempted write operation, a buffer position integer overflow is resulting in a IllegalArgumentException: Negative capacity: -2147336621 exception. 20/10/06 ...

TOPICS programming # javascript # nodejs # web-development # buffer-to-json # utf8-strings-in-nodejs ...

In this sample chapter, Robert Seacord discusses mitigation strategies that can be used to help eliminate vulnerabilities resulting from buffer overflows.

Abstract: TCP and IP fragmentation can be used to evade signature detection at Intrusion Detection/Prevention System (IDS / IPS). Such fragments may arrive out-of-sequence to escape from being ...

The Microsoft C/C++ compiler supports the GS switch which aims to detect stack buffer overruns at runtime and terminate the process, thus in most cases preventing an attacker from gaining control of ...

Thanks for the reply! I thought about that approach, but am on the fence about it (it just doesn't seem like a clean way to go, for whatever reason). My feeling is that there must be code in the JDK ...