Buffer Overflow Attacks in cybersecurity occur as a result of excess data being input into a system memory buffer. Examples, Prevention & Causes discussed.

Mozilla released emergency security updates today to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild, impacting its Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client.

The security vulnerability in question, known catchily as “CVE-2022-2294”, is a high-severity heap-based buffer overflow attack, targeting Chrome’s Real-Time communications component (WebRTC).

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.

The Wemo Mini Smart Plug V2 (model F7C063) from 2019 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack that can be used execute commands remotely.