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, ...

Hundreds of millions of cable modems are vulnerable to critical takeover attacks by hackers halfway around the world, researchers said. Cable Haunt, as the researchers have named their ...

A new alert from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has outlined strategies to eliminate buffer overflow vulnerabilities in ...

Internet Security Systems Inc. has spotted what’s believed to be the first known buffer-overflow vulnerability associated with remote-access servers, which could allow a hacker to gain control of an ...

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability is caused by a ...

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...

Attackers can now gain root privileges on millions of Linux systems — by exploiting an easy-to-exploit, newly discovered buffer overflow flaw in a common library used on most major distributions of ...