How security flaws work: The buffer overflow

Posted by BernardSwiss on Aug 27, 2015 10:07 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Peter Bright 		Mail this story
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The buffer overflow has long been a feature of the computer security landscape. In fact the first self-propagating Internet worm—1988's Morris Worm—used a buffer overflow in the Unix finger daemon to spread from machine to machine. Twenty-seven years later, buffer overflows remain a source of problems...

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