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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new alert from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has outlined strategies to eliminate buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ...
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 flow of ...