InfoWorld

AI finds 20-year-old bugs in PostgreSQL and MariaDB

Critical flaws affecting core components and extensions in PostgreSQL and MariaDB could allow remote code execution. The bugs ...
The Hacker News

Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution

"A buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal (aka Captive Portal) service of Palo Alto Networks ...
Hosted on MSN

Palo Alto warns of critical firewall zero-day under active attack

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed a critical buffer overflow flaw in its PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal that is being actively exploited. The zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, allows ...
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

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 ...
Threat Post

Patched Code Execution Bug Affects Most Android Users

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. A ...
PC Magazine

buffer overflow

A common cause of malfunctioning software. If the amount of data copied into a memory buffer exceeds the size of the buffer, the extra data will overwrite whatever is in the adjacent bytes, and those ...
Hackaday

buffer overflow

The original PlayStation might be pushing 30 years old now, but that doesn’t mean hackers have given up on chipping away at it. A new exploit released by [Marcos Del Sol Vives] allows users to run ...