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 ...

A new alert from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has outlined strategies to eliminate buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ...

Internet Security Systems Inc. has spotted what’s believed to be the first known buffer-overflow vulnerability associated with remote-access servers, which could allow a hacker to gain control of an ...

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...

Borrowing a technique from Eiffel, Google is adding Design-By-Contract functionality to Java to protect it against buffer overflow attacks Google is developing a set of extensions for Java that should ...

Just two months after the Heartbleed Bug scare, the open-source group for OpenSSL today warned of a new set of vulnerabilities discovered in the protocol that could let an attacker carry out ...

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 ...

Pour a 12-ounce can of soda into an eight-ounce glass, and you've got spilled soda and a sticky mess. Hackers know this principle, too. But when they apply it in crafting viruses and worms, the mess ...