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 ...

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Buffer overflow is a software bug or vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems. It is one of the ...

Researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has reported another URI abuse exploit. From Security Focus: Novell GroupWise is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Packet Storm made public today a proof-of-concept exploiting a known and patched heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser. Packet Storm made public today a proof-of-concept ...

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 ...