A buffer overflow could occur in VideoLAN’s VLC cross-platform multimedia player when attempting to parse a specially crafted advanced systems format (ASF) movie, a researcher reported. A buffer ...

Yokogawa Electric Corp., of Japan patched critical buffer overflow flaws in its CENTUM and Exaopac production control system software. Vulnerabilities in production control system software used in ...

Buffer Overflow Attacks occur as a result of excess data being input into a system memory buffer. Moreover, when the memory buffer’s capacity has been reached, the music will stop playing. To avoid ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Buffer overflow is a software bug or vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems. It is one of the ...

Google LLC, the Mozilla Foundation and other browser makers have released patches to fix a zero-day vulnerability affecting the WebP image format. It’s believed that hackers are actively exploiting ...

Bottom line: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is once again reminding IT manufacturers and developers that buffer overflow vulnerabilities must be eradicated from software. In ...

About 10,000 enterprise servers running Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect VPN are vulnerable to a just-patched buffer overflow bug with a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10. Security firm ...

The discovery and disclosure of a serious vulnerability in the Sendmail e-mail software by Atlanta based security giant Internet Security Systems (ISS) is starving another vulnerability of the ...

The team behind the widely used open source cryptographic library OpenSSL has patched two vulnerabilities in the service that it had previously taken the somewhat unusual step of pre-warning security ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Facebook acknowledged last week a massive security vulnerability in its ...