Using randomly generated IP addresses, Slammer used the buffer overflow exploit to replicate itself. Within three minutes after the first Slammer packet was unleashed, the number of infected ...

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.

When the lights start flickering in homes equipped with Schneider Electric end-of-life smart switches, it could be hackers, ...

The feature has been difficult to crack, but a new exploit disclosed by Vulnerability Lab security analyst Benjamin Kunz Mejri uses a buffer overflow exploit and some iPad-specific bugs to ...

There's a heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerability within Internet Explorer 6. The flaw resides in the DirectAnimation Path Control (DirectAnimation.PathControl) COM object (daxctle.ocx ...

It ultimately arrived as a "high" security fix for a buffer overflow, one that affects all OpenSSL 3.x installations, but is unlikely to lead to remote code execution. But the specific ...

On the other hand, this GNU C Library's (glibc) dynamic loader vulnerability is a buffer overflow, which is always big trouble, and it's in pretty much all Linux distributions, so it's more than ...

This is an example of a buffer overflow, one of the most persistent types of security problems that appears endlessly in lists of security vulnerabilities. For any computer security researcher it ...

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. ...

According to Facebook's security advisory, the WhatsApp vulnerability stemmed from an extremely common type of bug known as a buffer overflow. Apps have a sort of holding pen, called a buffer ...