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Critical PixieFail Vulnerabilities Lead to RCE and DoS Attacks

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A set of critical security vulnerabilities has been found in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification. Named PixieFail by Quarkslab, ...
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CISA Mandates Urgent Patching for Citrix NetScaler Vulnerabilities

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In a recent move to bolster cybersecurity defenses, CISA has issued a directive to U.S. federal agencies to urgently secure their systems against three newly patched vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler and Google ...
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Critical Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Fixed in Firefox and Thunderbird

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The latest release of Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 117, arrived last month with new features and various security fixes. Now, in the newer update, Mozilla patched a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability discovered ...
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How Buffer Overflow Attacks Work

How Buffer Overflow Attacks Work

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A computer program may be vulnerable to buffer overflow if it handles incoming data incorrectly. Anybody who can provide suitably crafted user input data can cause such a program to crash. Even ...
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