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Buffer Overrun in MDAC Function Could Allow Code Execution (832483)
Downloads Because of a vulnerability in a specific MDAC component, an attacker could respond to this request with a specially-crafted packet that could cause a buffer overflow. Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) is a collection of components that...
[January 13, 2004, 6:00]
Buffer Overflow Exploits: The Why and How
White Papers Buffer overflow exploits are pervasive, powerful, and easy to use. Buffer overflow exploits can be prevented. If programmers were perfect, there would be no unchecked buffers, and consequently, no buffer overflow exploits.
[November 3, 2005, 0:00]
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]
Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: Hyperterminal Buffer Overflow
Downloads This update resolves the "HyperTerminal Buffer Overflow" security vulnerability in Windows 2000. If you receive and open an HTML e-mail message that contains a particularly malformed Web address (URL), the URL can be used to exploit this...
[October 24, 2000, 8:00]
Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and Telnet Sessions Buffer Overflow
White Papers Cisco Systems has released Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy for FTP and Telnet Sessions Buffer Overflow. This paper describes the Firewall Authentication Proxy (Auth-Proxy) feature and discusses the workarounds and...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
Achieving 100% Throughput in TCP/AQM Under Aggressive Packet Marking With Small Buffer
White Papers This paper investigates the performance of TCP/AQM systems with ECN marks under the aggressive scale for packet marking and a buffer of size smaller than O(? Based on the model, it proves that the system yields good performance in terms of full...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Steps Involved in Exploiting a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Using a SEH Handler
White Papers This paper uses buffer overflow vulnerability in an application to overwrite the SEH handler. This paper will outline all the steps necessary to exploit such vulnerability, from detecting the point of buffer overflow in the application, to writing...
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
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 21, 2007, 0:01]
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]
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 21, 2007, 0:01]
Scalable Socket Buffer Tuning for High-Performance Web Servers
White Papers This paper proposes a new architecture, called Scalable Socket Buffer Tuning (SSBT), to provide high-performance and fair service for many TCP connections at Internet endhosts. The other is Equation-based Automatic TCP Buffer Tuning (E-ATBT), where...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
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, 1:00]
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 2, 2005, 2:00]
Modeling and Analysis of Switched Buffer Networks Using Hybrid Automata
White Papers The work discussed in this paper develops a methodology for modeling and analyzing switched buffer networks. Within the modeling framework one can represent the topology of such a network along with bounds on capacities of buffers and communication...
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
Windows NT SNMP Unchecked Buffer Vulnerability Patch
Downloads A buffer overrun is present in all implementations. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet standard protocol for managing disparate network devices such as firewalls, computers, and routers.
[March 15, 2002, 3:47]
Competitive Analysis of Buffer Policies With SLA Commitments
White Papers Using competitive analysis, they have shown how to utilize additional buffer space and link bandwidth so that the number of excess packets delivered is comparable to the best possible by any off-line algorithm, while guaranteeing that no arriving...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Receiver Buffer Requirement for Video Streaming Over TCP
White Papers In current practice, however, there are no systematic guidelines for the provisioning of the receiver buffer, and smooth playout is insured through over-provisioning. This paper is interested in memory-constrained applications where it is important...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
Trend Micro plugs buffer overflow bug
News Security solutions provider Trend Micro has released a fix for buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in its home user and corporate anti-virus packages. The bug is known to allow individuals to use a controlled buffer overflow to crash the anti...
[December 12, 2002, 12:17]
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Patch: Unchecked Buffer in Index Server
Downloads This update resolves the "Unchecked Buffer in Index Server ISAPI Extension Could Enable Web Server Compromise" security vulnerability in Windows NTŪ 4.0 computers running Index Server 2.0, and is discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-033.
[June 18, 2001, 8:00]
The TCP Bandwidth-Delay Product Revisited: Network Buffering, Cross Traffic, and Socket Buffer Auto-Sizing
White Papers The BDP is of fundamental importance because it determines the required socket buffer size for maximum throughput. It shows that, with careful socket buffer sizing, a bulk TCP transfer can saturate a network path independent of the BDP or the...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
