US authorities have labeled buffer overflow vulnerabilities as 'unforgivable defects' and urged all software developers to adopt secure-by-design practices. These vulnerabilities occur when software unexpectedly writes more data to memory than allocated, potentially allowing attackers to hijack program flow, execute malicious code, or cause crashes.
US authorities have labelled buffer overflow vulnerabilities"unforgivable defects”, pointed to the presence of the holes in products from the likes of Microsoft and VMware, and urged all software developers to adopt secure-by-design practices to avoid creating more of them.
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities occur when software unexpectedly writes more data to memory storage than has been allocated for that data. The extra information spills into other memory, altering it. Smart attackers can feed carefully crafted data into software with these bugs to hijack the flow of the program so that it can be made to do malicious things, or simply crash it.
labelled such memory safety flaws “unforgivable” because they’re avoidable if developers stop using outdated and unsafe coding practices and languages., this one also exploited as a zero-day. It allows escalation of privilege attacks on the Windows Common Log File System Driver that can lead to full system access.heap-overflow vulnerability that leads to RCE and was exploited in attacks after Broadcom's first attempt to fix it didn't work.
"CISA and FBI maintain that the use of unsafe software development practices that allow the persistence of buffer overflow vulnerabilities — especially the use of memory-unsafe programming languages — poses unacceptable risk to our national and economic security," the two government agencies wrote in their joint security alert.
The government also urged software developers to"conduct aggressive adversarial product testing, including static analysis, fuzzing, and manual reviews" throughout the entire development lifecycle.
BUFFER OVERFLOW SOFTWARE SECURITY CYBERSECURITY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
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