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 ...

ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) is a memory exploitation mitigation technique used on both Linux and Windows systems. Learn how to tell if it's running, enable/disable it, and get a view of ...

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 ...

A buffer overflow could occur in VideoLAN’s VLC cross-platform multimedia player when attempting to parse a specially crafted advanced systems format (ASF) movie, a researcher reported. A buffer ...

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 ...