Morning Overview on MSN

An 18-year-old heap buffer overflow in NGINX gives attackers remote code execution — billions of devices run the affected module

A single rewrite rule, the kind pasted into NGINX configurations thousands of times a day, can hand an unauthenticated ...
Morning Overview on MSN

An 18-year-old flaw in NGINX just gave attackers remote code execution on millions of web servers — nobody noticed for two decades

For roughly 18 years, a chunk of code inside one of the internet’s most popular web servers quietly carried a critical ...
CSOonline

What is a buffer overflow? And how hackers exploit these vulnerabilities

A buffer overflow or overrun is a memory safety issue where a program does not properly check the boundaries of an allocated fixed-length memory buffer and writes more data than it can hold. This ...
Bleeping Computer

Cisco warns of denial of service flaw with PoC exploit code

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability is caused by a ...
CSOonline

CISA, FBI call software with buffer overflow issues ‘unforgivable’

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...
Security Boulevard

AI Tools Expose PostgreSQL and MariaDB Flaws Hidden for Decades

AI-assisted security analysis uncovered critical PostgreSQL and MariaDB vulnerabilities that remained hidden for more than ...