Buffer overflow protection is any of various techniques used during software development to enhance the security of executable programs by detecting buffer...

information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting...

In software, a stack buffer overflow or stack buffer overrun occurs when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the...

A heap overflow, heap overrun, or heap smashing is a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area. Heap overflows are exploitable in a different...

Tan; Ji-yan Zheng; Yuan-Da Cao; Xue-lan Zhang (October 2005). Buffer overflow protection based on adjusting code segment limit. IEEE International Symposium...

when executable space protection is enforced. Buffer overflow Buffer overflow protection Heap overflow Stack-smashing protection Uncontrolled format string...

perform exploits. Common hardening techniques are: Buffer overflow protection Stack overwriting protection Position independent executables and address space...

Function prologue and epilogue also sometimes contain code for buffer overflow protection. A function prologue typically does the following actions if the...

unexpectedly small, potentially leading to a buffer overflow which, depending on the use of the buffer, might in turn cause arbitrary code execution...

run Windows Mobile, released in November 2002 Canary value, a buffer overflow protection method in computer programming Canary, LLC, an oilfield services...

tools a hacker has to compromise operating systems of today is the buffer overflow. C, in particular, uses the most primitive and error-prone way to mark...

of its software by default using gcc features such as PIE and buffer overflow protection, unlike operating systems such as OpenBSD, but tries to build...

Ubuntu compiles its packages using GCC features such as PIE and buffer overflow protection to harden its software.[relevant? – discuss] These extra features...

read from it. The term is distinct from buffer overflow, a condition where a portion of memory forms a buffer of a fixed size yet is filled with more...

points to memory that has been freed/deallocated/deleted) A buffer overflow A stack overflow Attempting to execute a program that does not compile correctly...

Yong-Joon and Gyungho Lee, "Repairing return address stack for buffer overflow protection," Proceedings of the 1st conference on Computing frontiers, ACM...

directly mapped shadow memory to detect memory corruption such as buffer overflows or accesses to a dangling pointer (use-after-free). Google's ASan,...

Wouter Joosen; Frank Piessens (2013-02-25). "Efficient protection against heap-based buffer overflows without resorting to magic" (PDF). Dept. of Computer...

ensures that there will be protection against insider attacks and reduces the threat to application security. Buffer overflows, a common software security...

"return-to-libc" attack is a computer security attack usually starting with a buffer overflow in which a subroutine return address on a call stack is replaced by...

file. Buffer overflow protection - with the introduction of garbage collection into C++, Managed C++ is less prone to the common buffer overflow errors...

compares the value in r10 to the target function's stored hash. Buffer overflow protection Payer, Mattias. "Control-Flow Integrity: An Introduction". nebelwelt...

control-flow integrity techniques, including stack canaries, buffer overflow protection, shadow stacks, and vtable pointer verification, are used to defend...

kernel-based intrusion detection, strong random number generation, stack buffer overflow protection, security partitioning, role-based access management, and various...

(unless suitable memory protection software is being used). Using memory beyond the memory that was allocated (buffer overflow): If an array is used in...

exploitation of buffer overflow bugs by marking the memory where data is written as non-executable, a technique known as executable space protection. With this...

security vulnerabilities when dealing with memory access, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers. For example, Java is said to be memory-safe...

protecting a procedure's stored return address, such as from a stack buffer overflow. The shadow stack itself is a second, separate stack that "shadows"...

from within this section; one class of such attacks is known as the buffer overflow attack. The term NX bit originated with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)...

attack and the first generic heap-based buffer overflow exploitation technique, as well as computer security protection techniques such as privilege separation...