Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities: The Hidden Risk Inside Your Applications

Buffer overflows have been around since the early days of computing, and they’re not going anywhere. They remain one of the most exploited classes of vulnerability in modern applications — and one of the easiest for attackers to weaponise.

In this eBook, our security team walks through how buffer overflow vulnerabilities work, why they keep appearing in production code, and what you can do across your software development lifecycle to defend against them.

Whether you build software in-house, work with third-party developers, or run commercial applications in your environment, this guide will help you understand where the risk sits and how to close it.

What’s inside

• How buffer overflows happen — stack, heap and integer overflow patterns explained in plain English
• Why modern languages and compilers haven’t made the problem go away
• The most common attack patterns we see in penetration testing engagements
• Practical mitigations across your SDLC, from secure coding standards to runtime protections
• How vulnerability management programmes can find and remediate these flaws before attackers do

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