Questions tagged as 'buffer-overflow'

Buffer overflow attacks occur when, when writing to a memory space, a program overflows the buffer boundaries and writes to an area of adjacent memory. I would like to know what features, from the point of view of architecture and the operat...

I'd like to know a totally secure way of capturing strings without running buffer overflow or any other threat. I read a lot about ready-made functions and would like to know which are the most recommended, but I wanted to be able to impleme...

I'm wanting to avoid writing out of the application due to buffer overflow, but I do not know how. The application is simple: it shows a message that prompts the user to type something, then takes that typed data and shows it on the screen. Howe...