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 ...

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 ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Buffer overflow is a software bug or vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems. It is one of the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Dumping too much data into a predefined area of computer memory is not unlike pouring too much water into a bucket or flushing too much tissue down a toilet. In all cases, there ...

Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron and Athlon 64 processors can detect a commonly used attack against PCs connected to the Internet and render it harmless by blocking malicious code from executing, AMD ...

Security researcher David Litchfield found a high risk problem in the form of a buffer overflow vulnerability occurring in a software component that ships with the Oracle 9i database on all platforms.

Researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has reported another URI abuse exploit. From Security Focus: Novell GroupWise is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate ...

The discovery and disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Sendmail e-mail software by Atlanta based security giant Internet Security Systems (ISS) is starving another vulnerability of the ...