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 ...

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 ...

Exact dates when the patch is expected to roll out is unknown, Google confirmed it will be coming to most users “over the coming days/weeks”. The Stable channel has been updated to 143.0.7499.109/.110 ...

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 ...

Notepad++ version 8.5.7 has been released with fixes for multiple buffer overflow zero-days, with one marked as potentially leading to code execution by tricking users into opening specially crafted ...