Last week I summarized the difficulties in preventing buffer overflows in complex software and introduced fuzzers. With multiple buffer overflows announced every week on some of the world’s most ...

AFAIK, IANAP:<BR> <BR>Some programming languages (C, for instance) have certain functions that <I>do not</I> check whether an argument is too big for its buffer, eg printf(). There are functions that ...

Can there be too much of a good thing? That’s certainly true for computer input. Do an Internet search on the term buffer overflow, and you’ll come up with hundreds of thousands of links, most related ...