This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fluent Bit flaws allow attackers to manipulate logs and execute remote codeCVE-2025-12972 permits overwriting files on disk ...

Numerous CA products include the company's Alert Service, which has been discovered to be vulnerable to several attacks via the SMB protocol. Such attacks would typically occur via TCP 445 or TCP 139.

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 ...

The discovery and disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Sendmail e-mail software by Atlanta based security giant Internet Security Systems (ISS) is starving another vulnerability of the ...

Secunia reports on a newly discovered QuickTime buffer overflow vulnerability that has been confirmed for version 7.x.x of the multimedia software for Windows, and is also thought to affect the Mac OS ...

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 in the adjacent bytes, and those ...