Neowin News Feed for: Overflow

Debian switches to 64-bit time completely to avoid Y2K38 disaster

Usama Jawad — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:50:02 +0000

Debian maintainers have proactively started implementing fixes for the Y2K38 problem, rather than scrambling at the last minute like in Y2K. Read more...

Sharing folders vulnerable to buffer overflow

Steven Parker — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:57:25 +0000

Even though the recent webcam vulnerability in MSN/Windows Live Messenger was only just addressed, another exploitable bug has already surfaced. This time it's a buffer overflow error that affects the Sharing folders feature in Windows... Read more...

Symantec Antivirus Heap Overflow Advisory

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:39:03 +0000

Security researcher Alex Wheeler has released an advisory that could potentially affect a large portion of Symantec's antivirus products including gateway, server, and client versions on most platforms. The flaw occurs during the decompression process... Read more...

RealPlayer Zipped Skin File Buffer Overflow

Darren Bolton — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:43:58 +0000

eEye Digital Security has discovered a vulnerability in RealPlayer that allows a remote attacker to reliably overwrite the stack with arbitrary data and execute arbitrary code in the context of the user under which the... Read more...

Microsoft Word Document Parsing Buffer Overflow

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:12:57 +0000

HexView has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an... Read more...

MSN Messenger 6.0 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:55:26 +0000

dwergs from Mess with MSN Messenger points out another reason why you should upgrade to the latest 0602 build of MSN Messenger 6. A certain Bahaa Naamneh reported a bug in MSN Messenger 6.0.0501 and... Read more...

Seti@home is prey to buffer overflow

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:04:11 +0000

TIME TO GET THE BANDAGES in place for Seti@Home users. It seems that all versions of the client software are at risk from a buffer overflow hack. There are new versions of the software up... Read more...

Security Patch: Multiple UNC Provider Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Fri, 05 Apr 2002 02:55:44 +0000

Microsoft has released a patch that resolves the "Unchecked buffer in the Multiple UNC Provider" security vulnerability in Windows XP. The vulnerability results because of a flaw in the Multiple UNC (uniform... Read more...