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Journal Article

Defeating Buffer Overflow: A Trivial but Dangerous Bug

Published: December 1, 2016
Citation: IT Professional vol. 18, no. 6, (November/December 2016) pp. 58-61

Author(s)

Paul Black (NIST), Irena Bojanova (NIST)

Abstract

Keywords

cybersecurity; buffer overflows
Control Families

None selected

Documentation

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

Supplemental Material:
None available

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

Topics

Security and Privacy

vulnerability management

Technologies

software & firmware