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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn ...

An attacker sending specially crafted data packets containing hex strings (type 3) or a list of decimal strings separated by “;” (type 9) can cause a buffer overflow due to a fixed-size stack ...

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 ...

Notepad++ version 8.5.7 has been released with fixes for multiple buffer overflow zero-days, with one marked as potentially leading to code execution by tricking users into opening specially ...

Astoundingly, more than 48 years after the problem was first diagnosed, the so-called "buffer overflow attack" remains a risk in many systems! The problem stems from a basic fact about how ...