For software developers interested in a recent buffer overflow discovered in 2021, we offer the following code in C, which is a simplified and rewritten version of a vulnerability in the ZTE ...

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 ...

and Ada95 detects and prevents buffer overflows. However, C — the most widely used programming language today — has no built-in bounds checking, and C programs often write past the end of a ...

This article attempts to explain what buffer overflow is, how it can be exploited and what countermeasures can be taken to avoid it. Knowledge of C or any other high level language is essential to ...

Buffer overflows are one of the oldest and most common causes for arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, and applications written in programming languages like C and C++ are more prone to such ...

Buffer overflows are very easy to do in some programming languages. For instance, take a look at the following code in C (it's very simple to understand): This is a very simple "C" program that ...

A few weeks ago, we published a challenge relating to the exploitation of a simple buffer overflow in Linux. In the published solution, it was noted how it was possible to change the execution ...

These functions translate user-friendly domain addresses such as example.com into numerical network IP addresses, such as 93.184.216.34, and are part of the GNU C library which is included in ...

These functions translate user-friendly domain addresses such as example.com into numerical network IP addresses, such as 93.184.216.34, and are part of the GNU C library which is included in ...

Using randomly generated IP addresses, Slammer used the buffer overflow exploit to replicate itself. Within three minutes after the first Slammer packet was unleashed, the number of infected ...