OpenSSL updates released on Tuesday patch a dozen vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution flaw.

Researchers at IBM disclosed a serious buffer overflow vulnerability in Android 4.3 and earlier that could lead to code execution. The bug is patched in KitKat, but most users are on older versions. A ...

Developers at PHP recently patched a bug that can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. UPDATE Developers at PHP recently pushed out a series of patches to fix a handful of vulnerabilities, including ...

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in the Crucial MX500 solid-state drive (SSD) running firmware version M3CR046. Recorded as CVE-2024-42642 on the official CVE website, this security ...

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 ...

The original PlayStation might be pushing 30 years old now, but that doesn’t mean hackers have given up on chipping away at it. A new exploit released by [Marcos Del Sol Vives] allows users to run ...

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 ...