Packet Storm made public today a proof-of-concept exploiting a known and patched heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser.

Students will learn about a variety of different buffer overflow exploits including SEH-based overflows, which use the Windows Structured Exception Handler to gain reliable control over execution.

The zero-day exploit is technically a heap buffer overflow in VP8 encoding in libvpx, which is a video code library developed by Google and the Alliance for Open Media.

The new vulnerability, categorized as CVE-2022-4135, is a heap buffer overflow issue in the GPU that can result in malicious actors gaining unauthorized access to information, induce ...

The other trend here is the rise of Heap buffer overflow exploits. After staying off the radar for some time, Heap buffer exploits were responsible for several High level threats earlier this month.

Buffer overflows have been a serious security problem for software developers for several decades now, but the history of exploitation research on this class of flaws is relatively short.

Thanks Aaron! Secunia Research is reporting a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the widely used RealPlayer video player.

This is something that has always puzzled me. You hear about security flaws all the time in products because a malicious program can overflow the buffer and execute any code that it wants.It would ...