Buffer Overflow: A Common Vulnerability Exploited by Cybercriminals 05/04/2023 – Posted in: Information Security, Penetration Testing

Time to Read: 4-5 minutes. Buffer overflow is one of the most common and dangerous types of software vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit. It occurs when a program writes more data into a buffer than it can hold, causing the extra data to overflow into adjacent memory locations. This can cause the program to crash or be taken over by an attacker. In this post, we will discuss what buffer overflow vulnerabilities are, how they…

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