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Guarded Memory Move (GMM) Buffer Overflow Detection And Analysis
White Papers Buffer overflow attacks have become more and more frequent with the advent of the Internet. Many famous packages like bind, wu_ftp, apache and sendmail, just to keep the list short, have been subject of buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
Buffer Requirements Of A Gigabit Ethernet Switch
White Papers These packets are stored in packet buffer memory. It is necessary for every system designer to offset the cost of buffer memory against the switch performance. To this end, it is necessary to consider all the different factors affecting the amount...
[March 23, 2004, 23:00]
Buffer Overflow Flaw Found In Open Source MP3 Player
News The software vulnerability may lead to an exploit in which a specially crafted MP2 or MP3 file could cause a memory problem called a "buffer overflow" that could allow an attacker to run malicious code.
[January 12, 2005, 7:50]
Secure Programmer: Countering Buffer Overflows
White Papers This paper discusses the top vulnerability in Linux/UNIX systems: buffer overflows. This paper first explains what buffer overflows are and why they're both so common and so dangerous. It then shows various ways to counter buffer overflows in C/C++...
[February 16, 2005, 23:00]
Efficient Buffer Management For Scalable Media-on-Demand
White Papers Research on scalable MoD has resulted in many efficient schemes that involve segmentation and asynchronous broadcast of media data, requiring clients to buffer and reorder out-of-order segments efficiently for serial playout.
[April 12, 2005, 0:00]
Malicious Code Protector: A New Approach For Detecting And Blocking Buffer Over?ow Attacks
White Papers While attack countermeasures have been developed to identify a buffer overflow attack after it has emerged, current solutions are unable to identify new attacks or variations on the attack. To solve this problem Check Point developed Malicious Code...
[March 1, 2005, 23:00]
Adaptive Jitter Buffer Management For Voice Over IP
White Papers This white paper will introduce important concepts surrounding jitter buffer management. Then,several industry-wide jitter buffer management techniques will be explained in detail. Finally, a review of the jitter buffer management solutions...
[December 25, 2003, 23:00]
MSDN Webcast: Security Best Practices: Finding And Fixing Buffer Overflows (Level 200)
White Papers Buffer overflows are never a good sign. This webcast describes what they are, and shows how to identify the big dangers associated with buffer overflows, as well as how to fix them.
[February 27, 2008, 23:00]
Transmeta Adds Buffer-overflow Protection At Chip Level
News The "No Execute", or NX, technology is designed to help prevent a buffer overflow, a type of attack that involves overwhelming a computer's defence systems and inserting a malicious program in buffer, or temporary, memory.
[May 18, 2004, 9:00]
Throughput Maximization With Buffer Constraints In Broadband OFDMA Network
White Papers The proposed algorithm assumes a finite buffer for the arrival packets and allocates the radio resource based on users' channel characteristics and traffic patterns. This paper presents a radio resource allocation scheme for OFDMA-based wireless...
[October 26, 2004, 0:00]
Scalable Automatic Buffer Tuning To Provide High Performance And Fair Service For TCP Connections
White Papers This paper proposes a new architecture, which is called Scalable Automatic Buffer Tuning (SABT), to provide high performance and fair service for many TCP connections at the Internet endhosts. In SABT, the sender host estimates 'Expected...
[January 14, 2008, 23:00]
Content-Adaptive Temporal Search Range Control Based On Frame Buffer Utilization
White Papers This paper investigates the relationships between the reference frame buffer utilization and the optimal search range. Multiple reference frame selection adopted by the state-of-art H.264 video compression standard offers substantial performance gain.
[May 31, 2007, 0:00]
Performance Analysis Of The Linux Buffer Cache While Running An Oracle OLTP Workload
White Papers This project deals with the performance analysis of the Linux buffer cache while running an Oracle OLTP workload. The Linux buffer cache was studied and tests were conducted to gather buffer cache hit rates and test run times.
[April 3, 2007, 0:00]
Writing Behind A Buffer
White Papers In fact, the problem that is going to be analyzed can be reduced to a memory adjacent overwriting attack but usually it is obtained exploiting the last null byte of a buffer, hence the authors' show that the same result is still possible writing...
[January 24, 2006, 23:00]
TCP-Friendly Streaming With Decoder Buffer Control
White Papers Without decoder buffer control, however, the amount of the video in the decoder buffer is arbitrarily determined and sometimes a decoder buffer underflow which triggers rebuffering occurs. So the paper proposes an advanced streaming mechanism which...
[December 20, 2007, 23:00]
Can OpenBSD Really Eliminate Buffer Over-runs?
News Tackling one of the most commonly reported causes of vulnerabilities, the OpenBSD project recently announced that a major effort has been put into place to eliminate buffer overrun vulnerabilities in its popular open source operating system.
[April 28, 2003, 7:54]
Optimal Choice Of The Buffer Size In The Internet Routers
White Papers The paper studies an optimal choice of the buffer size in the Internet routers. The objective is to determine the minimum value of the buffer size required in order to fully utilize the link capacity.
[December 20, 2007, 23:00]
Performance Modeling Of Differential Fair Buffer Allocation
White Papers The work discussed in this paper develops an analytical model to assess the performance of TCP over the Differential Fair Buffer Allocation implementation suggested by the ATM Forum. The Guaranteed Frame Rate (GFR) service is viewed as the most...
[December 26, 2007, 23:00]
TCP Networks Stabilized By Buffer-Based AQMs
White Papers In the work discussed in this paper, the authors developed stability conditions for congestion control of present Internet characterized by TCP-controlled sources and buffer-based Active Queue Management (AQM) schemes.
[October 30, 2007, 23:00]
Understanding Buffer Overflow Attacks
White Papers One of the methods used to gain access to systems was a buffer overflow exploit of a UNIX service called finger. But the buffer overflow attack on finger replaced the server program with a UNIX command interpreter, or shell.
[October 12, 2003, 0:00]
