AFAIK, IANAP:<BR> <BR>Some programming languages (C, for instance) have certain functions that <I>do not</I> check whether an argument is too big for its buffer, eg printf(). There are functions that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why it matters: Every year, the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute releases a list for the most common weakness enumeration in software, which lead to the most abused ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exact dates when the patch is expected to roll out is unknown, Google confirmed it will be coming to most users “over 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 ...

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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 ...