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Researcher Finds Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in Several Adobe Products
2020-05-20 08:55

Adobe informed customers on Tuesday that it has patched memory corruption vulnerabilities, including one that allows arbitrary code execution, in several of its products. All of the security flaws were reported to Adobe by researcher Mat Powell of Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative.

Revealed: The 25 most dangerous software bug types – mem corruption, so hot right now
2019-09-18 06:56

Tired: SQLi. Expired: Format string exploits. Hired: Anyone who can port code from C/C++ On Tuesday, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) team from MITRE, a non-profit focused on information...

New Microsoft Tool Analyzes Memory Corruption Bugs
2017-10-04 17:05

A newly released analysis tool from Microsoft helps security engineers and developers investigate memory corruption bugs. read more

Memory Corruption Mitigations Doing Their Job (Threatpost)
2017-04-03 17:00

At the Security Analyst Summit, Mark Dowd described how memory corruption mitigations are successfully driving up exploit development costs.

Obihai Patches Memory Corruption, DoS, CSRF Vulnerabilities in IP Phones (Threatpost)
2016-08-22 19:58

Obihai Technology recently patched a slew of issues in its ObiPhone IP phone products that could have led to memory corruption, a buffer overflow, and denial of service conditions, among other outcomes.

Corruption, Code Execution Vulnerabilities Patched in Open Source Archiver 7-Zip (Threatpost)
2016-05-12 19:11

Several vulnerabilities were fixed this week in the file archiver 7-Zip which could have led to arbitrary code execution and file corruption.

Corruption: The magnitude of risk (Help Net Security)
2016-03-11 14:00

40 percent of all compliance officers surveyed believe their company’s bribery and corruption risks will increase in 2016, according to a new report by Kroll and the Ethisphere Institute. One in...

Adobe Patches Memory Corruption Flaw in Shockwave (Threatpost)
2015-10-27 17:05

Adobe updated its Shockwave Player, patching a critical memory corruption vulnerability in the software.