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Tag: Buffer Overflow

  • The Register: Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/25/draytek_routers_bootloop/ Source: The Register Title: Hm, why are so many DrayTek routers stuck in a bootloop? Feedly Summary: Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice…

  • Hacker News: The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon

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    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-insecurity-of-telecom-stacks-in-the-wake-of-salt-typhoon/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a security vulnerability discovered in FreeSWITCH, an open-source telecom software, which could allow for remote code execution due to improper handling of HTTP requests. The…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Six Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/11/cisa-adds-six-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Six Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-24983 Microsoft Windows Win32k Use-After-Free Vulnerability CVE-2025-24984 Microsoft Windows NTFS Information Disclosure Vulnerability CVE-2025-24985 Microsoft Windows Fast FAT File System Driver Integer…

  • The Register: Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero day fixes, or six critical flaws

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/patch_tuesday/ Source: The Register Title: Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero day fixes, or six critical flaws Feedly Summary: Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday bundle has appeared, with a dirty dozen flaws competing for…

  • Slashdot: Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues?

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/03/0654205/can-trapc-fix-c-and-c-memory-safety-issues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The development of TrapC, a fork of the C programming language, aims to address longstanding memory safety issues associated with C and C++. The introduction of a cybersecurity-centric compiler, trapc, enhances security…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: ClearML and Nvidia vulns

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/clearml-and-nvidia-vulns/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: ClearML and Nvidia vulns Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed two vulnerabilities in ClearML and four vulnerabilities in Nvidia. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy.   For Snort…

  • The Register: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/fbi_cisa_unforgivable_buffer_overflow/ Source: The Register Title: The Feds want developers to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulns Feedly Summary: FBI, CISA harrumph at Microsoft and VMware in call for coders to quit baking avoidable defects into stuff US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities “unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in…

  • Alerts: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/12/cisa-and-fbi-warn-malicious-cyber-actors-using-buffer-overflow-vulnerabilities-compromise-software Source: Alerts Title: CISA and FBI Warn of Malicious Cyber Actors Using Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities to Compromise Software Feedly Summary: CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have released a Secure by Design Alert, Eliminating Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, as part of their cooperative Secure by Design Alert series—an ongoing series aimed…