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Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities: How Memory Corruption Breaks Code
Buffer overflows let attackers overwrite adjacent memory to hijack program execution, bypassing standard access controls and crashing systems.
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Everything Crypt Weekly has reported about buffer overflow: 3 stories, newest first. Part of our Vulnerabilities coverage.

Buffer overflows let attackers overwrite adjacent memory to hijack program execution, bypassing standard access controls and crashing systems.

Modern defenses like ASLR and DEP reduce exploit success, but they do not eliminate the underlying memory corruption flaws that attackers still exploit in legacy and embedded code.

A critical buffer overflow in IBM DataPower Gateway versions 10.5 through 11.0 allows remote attackers to execute code without authentication.