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 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 ...

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 ...

Security researchers Vladimir Kiriansky and Carl Waldspurger have uncovered two buffer-overflow derivatives of the Spectre microprocessor bug. In a paper describing the flaws – dubbed Spectre 1.1 and ...