Defeating Buffer Overflow: A Trivial but Dangerous Bug

Black, Paul; Bojanova, Irena

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2016.117

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Journal Article

Defeating Buffer Overflow: A Trivial but Dangerous Bug

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Published: December 01, 2016
Citation: IT Professional vol. 18, no. 6, (November/December 2016) pp. 58-61

Author(s)

Paul Black (NIST), Irena Bojanova (NIST)

Abstract

With the C programming language comes buffer overflows. Because it is unlikely that the use of C will stop any time soon, the authors present some ways to deal with buffer overflows—both how to detect and prevent them.

Keywords

cybersecurity; buffer overflows

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Document History:
12/01/16: Journal Article (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy
vulnerability management

Technologies
software & firmware