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ioannapap/stack_buffer_overflow

A high-level programming language, such as C, leaves the programmer responsible for data integrity. As the control and the efficiency of the program increases, the code may be vulnerable to buffer ...
Security Boulevard

Exploits Explained: How Log4j, Buffer Overflows and Other Exploits Work

In cybersecurity, the term “exploit” is used to represent a piece of code, data or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a vulnerability. This code is usually broken up into three distinct ...
Security Boulevard

How to detect, prevent, and mitigate buffer overflow attacks

In the late 1980s, a buffer overflow in UNIX’s fingerd program allowed Robert T. Morris to create a worm which infected 10% of the Internet—in two days. This event launched cybersecurity to the ...
Linux Journal

Buffer Overflow Attacks and Their Countermeasures

Buffer overflow problems always have been associated with security vulnerabilities. In the past, lots of security breaches have occurred due to buffer overflow. This article attempts to explain what ...
CSOonline

What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This ...
GitHub

Buffer int overflow in CapacityByteArrayOutputStream, SnappyCompressor

During an attempted write operation, a buffer position integer overflow is resulting in a IllegalArgumentException: Negative capacity: -2147336621 exception. 20/10/06 ...