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 ...

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows. Microsoft added ...

In mid-May, a nasty security bug was discovered in popular messaging app WhatsApp that allowed hackers to install powerful malware on iPhone and Android devices. Interestingly, to exploit the bug, ...

There are stack buffer overflows in two components of a Honeywell point-of-sale software package that can allow attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities lie in the ...

There is a series of stack buffer overflows in nearly 20 ICS products manufactured by Japanese vendor Yokogawa that can lead to remote code execution. The bugs affect a long list of the company’s ...

If you encounter the error message “The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application” when trying to run an application on your Windows ...

Cisco has released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software that ...

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 ...

A Google security engineer studying an SSH connection to a host unexpectedly discovered a deeper, darker secret in the GNU C Library (glibc). Google later proved that a bug in this library could be ...

Sudo, a utility found in dozens of Unix-like operating systems, has received a patch for a potentially serious bug that allows unprivileged users to easily obtain unfettered root privileges on ...