Morning Overview on MSN

An 18-year-old heap buffer overflow in NGINX gives attackers remote code execution — billions of devices run the affected module

A single rewrite rule, the kind pasted into NGINX configurations thousands of times a day, can hand an unauthenticated ...
CSOonline

What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This ...
Computer Weekly

Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, Chapter 7 -- Buffer Overflow

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 ...
CSOonline

CISA, FBI call software with buffer overflow issues ‘unforgivable’

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...
Security Boulevard

AI Tools Expose PostgreSQL and MariaDB Flaws Hidden for Decades

AI-assisted security analysis uncovered critical PostgreSQL and MariaDB vulnerabilities that remained hidden for more than ...