A Google security engineer studying an SSH connection to a host unexpectedly discovered a deeper, darker secret in the GNU C Library (glibc). Google later proved that a bug in this library could be ...

An exploit for a flaw in censorware mandated by the Chinese government has been made publicly available for download on the internet. The buffer overflow flaw exists in the latest, patched version of ...

A classic buffer overflow exploit has been discovered in the Android software development kit (SDK) that impacts all versions of the Android Debug Bridge on Linux x86_64. The exploit scenario involved ...

Sudo, a utility found in dozens of Unix-like operating systems, has received a patch for a potentially serious bug that allows unprivileged users to easily obtain unfettered root privileges on ...

Snort can be buffer overflowed. About once a year, Snort gets a buffer overflow vulnerability. Any piece of additional software in a defense strategy has to be carefully considered (e.g. Snort, ...