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Stack buffer overflow is a very popular and dangerous kind of buffer overflow. The memory space of every running application contains a “stack segment” (something we omitted earlier in this ...
The stack-based buffer overflow occurs when an attacker explicitly aims his input toward the stack section of the memory. This is the most common type of buffer overflow attack and the easier one.
Stack-based buffer overrun (or stack-based buffer overflow) is a bug that indicates that a program writes more data to a buffer located on the stack than is actually allocated for the buffer.
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.
Developer Landon Fuller has created a a runtime fix for the stack buffer overflow in the QuickTime Streaming component reported yesterday. This flaw could theoretically lead to malicious code ...
Windows Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature that primarily protects against stack buffer overflow attacks, where an attacker attempts to trigger arbitrary code ...
This month's history of cybersecurity looks at the buffer overflow attack, which still remains a risk even more than 48 years after the problem was first diagnosed. October 07, 2020 at 07:00 AM ...
Google wrote: “The glibc DNS client side resolver is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the getaddrinfo () library function is used.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18634, is the result of a stack-based buffer-overflow bug found in versions 1.7.1 through 1.8.25p1.