A SecurityFocus Online article discusses a QuickTime Buffer Overrun problem that could result in a security vulnerability: "A vulnerability has been reported in the Apple Quicktime ActiveX component ...

Buffer overrun exploits are bad, but having your program abort when it sees a long string isn't much better. There's a magic word you need to know to use the security-enhanced Microsoft C string ...

Sudo command leak not fixed in update Yesterday, we reported a potential buffer overrun security leak involving the sudo command (used in Terminal). Today, securemac.com states that this has not been ...

Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition Microsoft Windows 2000 Windows XP Professional A flaw exists in the way that the server validates the parameters of an SMB packet. When a ...

Hey all,<BR><BR>I've been running BOINC with three different projects (SETI, Climate and Einstein) for many moons with no problems. Suddenly (in the past week or so ...

There is a flaw in the way that the Microsoft WordPerfect converter handles Corel WordPerfect documents. A security vulnerability results because the converter does not correctly validate certain ...

Data overflowing the banks of a storage site doesn’t sound a promising premise for a dance. It becomes a suggestive metaphor, however, in Ginger Krebs’ world premiere “Buffer Overrun,” a stubbornly ...