Researchers last week revealed an unpatched buffer overflow bug in Windows that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected machine.<br/> ...

Students will learn about a variety of different buffer overflow exploits including SEH-based overflows, which use the Windows Structured Exception Handler to gain reliable control over execution.

Many of you have probably heard about Michael Lynn, the ISS employee who figured out how to get a remote shell on a Cisco router using both buffer overflow attacks and heap overflow attacks. Cisco ...

QuickStudy: A buffer overflow occurs when a computer program attempts to stuff more data into a buffer (a defined temporary storage area) than it can hold. The excess data bits then overwrite ...

Buffer overflows have been a serious security problem for software developers for several decades now, but the history of exploitation research on this class of flaws is relatively short.

It ultimately arrived as a "high" security fix for a buffer overflow, one that affects all OpenSSL 3.x installations, but is unlikely to lead to remote code execution.

Researchers last week revealed an unpatched buffer overflow bug in Windows that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected machine.<br/> ...