A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes beyond the end of a buffer (bounded array). In this chapter, we will focus on understanding vulnerabilities and writing exploits. We will also write ...

A Google security engineer studying an SSH connection to a host unexpectedly discovered a deeper, darker secret in the GNU C Library (glibc). Google later proved that a bug in this library could be ...

Buffer overflow attacks can cause serious damage to an organization by enabling an attacker to assault an application and gain control of the corporate network. These attacks are far from new -- the ...

D-Link warned customers of a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-86296) with public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code and no patch, affecting legacy DIR-822A dual-band Wi-Fi routers. This ...

A buffer overflow occurs when a program or process attempts to write more data to a fixed-length block of memory, or buffer, than the buffer is allocated to hold. Buffers contain a defined amount of ...

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 ...