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Public Exploit Available for Patched Safari Bug

Packet Storm made public today a proof-of-concept exploiting a known and patched heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser. Packet Storm made public today a proof-of-concept ...
WeLiveSecurity

What are buffer overflow attacks and how are they thwarted?

The Morris worm of 1988 was one of those industry-shaking experiences that revealed how quickly a worm could spread using a vulnerability known as a buffer overflow or buffer overrun. Around 6,000 of ...
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

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 ...
ZDNet

Android SDK suffers from buffer overflow and lack of hardening

A classic buffer overflow exploit has been discovered in the Android software development kit (SDK) that impacts all versions of the Android Debug Bridge on Linux x86_64. The exploit scenario involved ...
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Buffer Overflow in BSD libc Library Patched

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The BSD libc library was updated recently to address ...
techtarget

What is a buffer overflow? How do these types of attacks work?

A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process attempts to write more data to a fixed-length block of memory, or buffer, than the buffer is allocated to hold. Buffers contain a defined amount of ...