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 ...

MITRE has released the 2025 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software vulnerabilities list, which includes three new buffer overflow ...

Many times when updates or security patches appear for the OS or applications, a common reason for the update is that an attacker can make the program execute arbitrary code, usually by tricking a ...

MITRE has released its Top 25 CWE list for 2025, compiled from software and hardware flaws behind almost 40,000 CVEs ...

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Secure by Design Alert, Eliminating Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as part of their cooperative Secure by Design Alert series—an ...

Exact dates when the patch is expected to roll out is unknown, Google confirmed it will be coming to most users “over the ...

A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data copied into a memory buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the extra data will overwrite whatever is in the adjacent bytes, and those ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley ...

A software buffer overflow vulnerability in Samba open-source software could give an attacker remote access to a machine running that software, according to security company Digital Defense. The Samba ...