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 ...

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 ...

The original PlayStation might be pushing 30 years old now, but that doesn’t mean hackers have given up on chipping away at it. A new exploit released by [Marcos Del Sol Vives] allows users to run ...

A buffer overflow could occur in VideoLAN’s VLC cross-platform multimedia player when attempting to parse a specially crafted advanced systems format (ASF) movie, a researcher reported. A buffer ...

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 software ...

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 ...

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Bottom line: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is once again reminding IT manufacturers and developers that buffer overflow vulnerabilities must be eradicated from software. In ...

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 1.1 and ...

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in the Crucial MX500 solid-state drive (SSD) running firmware version M3CR046. Recorded as CVE-2024-42642 on the official CVE website, this security ...