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What is Buffer Overflow Attack? Examples, Prevention, Causes discussed

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 ...
eWeek

Buffer-Overflow Attacks: Perimeter Defenses No Panacea

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. By now youve probably read about, if not experienced, ...
Business Insider

This is how attackers were able to spread spyware through WhatsApp with just a phone call

A recently fixed vulnerability in WhatsApp allowed attackers to spread spyware to mobile devices with just a phone call. The attackers exploited a vulnerability known as buffer overflow, a type of ...
PC Magazine

buffer overflow

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 ...
Threat Post

Buffer Overflow in BSD libc Library Patched

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The BSD libc library was updated recently to address ...
Ars Technica

Buffer overflow exploit can bypass Activation Lock on iPads running iOS 10.1.1

Apple's Activation Lock feature, introduced in iOS 7 in 2013, deters thieves by associating your iPhone and iPad with your Apple ID. Even if a thief steals your device, puts it into Recovery Mode, and ...
Computerworld

Buffer overflow vulnerability found in Microsoft chat

Free online fixes are now available to repair a buffer overflow security vulnerability found recently in Microsoft Corp.’s free MSN Chat, MSN Messenger and Microsoft Exchange Instant Messenger ...
ZDNet

Buffer overflow flaw socks Snort

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 ...
Threat Post

TP-Link Routers Vulnerable to Zero-Day Buffer Overflow Attack

Consumer router models allowed authenticated users to take unrestricted remote control over TL-WR940N and TL-WR941ND routers. Two models of TP-Link’s budget routers are vulnerable to zero-day flaws ...
Hackaday

buffer overflow

The original PlayStation might be pushing 30 years old now, but that doesn’t mean hackers have given up on chipping away at it. A new exploit released by [Marcos Del Sol Vives] allows users to run ...