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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This chapter illustrates the basics and the exploitation of stack overflows. In 1996, stack-based buffer overflows were the first type of vulnerability described as a separate class. (See "Smashing ...

Snort can be buffer overflowed. About once a year, Snort gets a buffer overflow vulnerability. Any piece of additional software in a defense strategy has to be carefully considered (e.g. Snort, ...