ZDNet

Open-source team fights buffer overflows

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Computer Weekly

Spectre variant gives buffer overflow a new twist

Security researchers Vladimir Kiriansky and Carl Waldspurger have uncovered two buffer-overflow derivatives of the Spectre microprocessor bug. In a paper describing the flaws – dubbed Spectre 1.1 and ...
CSOonline

New Snort overflow exploit

Snort can be buffer overflowed. About once a year, Snort gets a buffer overflow vulnerability. Any piece of additional software in a defense strategy has to be carefully considered (e.g. Snort, ...
Ars Technica

What causes code in buffer overflows to execute?

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 ...
ZDNet

Green Dam exploit in the wild

An exploit for a flaw in censorware mandated by the Chinese government has been made publicly available for download on the internet. The buffer overflow flaw exists in the latest, patched version 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 ...