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

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows.

Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers.

This excerpt is from Chapter 7, Buffer Overflow of Exploiting Software: How to Break Code written by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw, and published by Addison-Wesley Professional.

Virsec effectively detects and stops advanced fileless and zero-day techniques including buffer overflow attacks, stack smashing, DLL injections, return-oriented programming (ROP) and ROP gadgets ...

Cigital warned that a Visual C++ .Net compiler just announced by Microsoft is susceptible to a buffer overflow attack.

On the other hand, as Code Red caused massive internet slowdowns and was widely covered by news outlets, we saw a pervasive increase of buffer overflow attacks virtually overnight.

The zero-day exploit is technically a heap buffer overflow in VP8 encoding in libvpx, which is a video code library developed by Google and the Alliance for Open Media.