What is a buffer overflow, how is this software vulnerability exploited by hackers and how can you defend against buffer overflow attacks?

Buffer Overflow: In mid-May, a nasty security bug was discovered in popular messaging app WhatsApp, which involved using buffer overflow.

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How ASLR works ASLR increases the control-flow integrity of a system by making it more difficult for an attacker to execute a successful buffer-overflow attack by randomizing the offsets it uses ...

The BSD libc library was updated recently to address a buffer overflow vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

A lot of the recent MS security patches are buffer related. "Unchecked buffer" this, "buffer overflow" that, etc, etc...This may be a very deep question, but I'm going to ask it anyway in hopes ...

HP has issued a list of its printers that are vulnerable to a new "Critical" buffer overflow bug that can lead to exploitation. Fortunately, patched firmware for these models has also been released.