OpenSSL updates released on Tuesday patch a dozen vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution flaw.

It used to be that buffer overflows were just a nagging 40-year-old glitch in the software development process. Today, as illustrated by Code Red, they are the No 1 reason hackers can slice through ...

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 ...

Dumping too much data into a predefined area of computer memory is not unlike pouring too much water into a bucket or flushing too much tissue down a toilet. In all cases, there are overflows. And the ...

Can there be too much of a good thing? That’s certainly true for computer input. Do an Internet search on the term buffer overflow, and you’ll come up with hundreds of thousands of links, most related ...

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 ...

When the Spectre and Meltdown attacks were disclosed earlier this year, the expectation was that these attacks would be the first of many, as researchers took a closer look at the way that the ...

TP-Link has confirmed the existence of an unpatched zero-day vulnerability impacting multiple router models, as CISA warns that other router flaws have been exploited in attacks. Modern attacks have ...

Last week I summarized the difficulties in preventing buffer overflows in complex software and introduced fuzzers. With multiple buffer overflows announced every week on some of the world’s most ...

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The BSD libc library was updated recently to address ...