The heap buffer overflow issue in the browser’s WebRTC engine could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code. While people were celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in the United States, Google ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Google revealed a high-severity attack has been targeting Android and Windows users via Google Chrome. Reported by a member of the Avast Threat Intelligence team, the high-severity ...

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 ...

The OpenBSD project hopes new changes to its latest release will eliminate "buffer overflows," a software issue that has been plaguing security experts for more than three decades. Theo de Raadt, the ...

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 ...