This may come as a surprise: Integer overflow is now one of the biggest vulnerabilities reported in vendor operating systems. Buffer overflow maintains its top ranking as the most exploited security ...

After twenty years, a vulnerability in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient compression algorithm, has finally been patched. The flaw, a subtle integer overflow, existed for as long as ...

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Hackers used specially-crafted Microsoft Word documents during the last few months to abuse an Integer Overflow bug that helped them bypass sandbox and anti-malware solutions and exploit the Microsoft ...

Blockchain security startup PeckShield has come across a critical vulnerability in multiple Ethereum smart contracts (based on the ERC20 protocol) which results in integer overflow – a common issue ...

Hours after hackers posted public code designed to take advantage of the recently patched Microsoft vector markup language (VML) vulnerability, VeriSign iDefense security researchers discovered a ...