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Journal Article

Defeating Buffer Overflow: A Trivial but Dangerous Bug

Published: December 01, 2016
Citation: IT Professional vol. 18, no. 6, (November/December 2016) pp. 58-61

Author(s)

Paul Black (NIST), Irena Bojanova (NIST)

Abstract

Keywords

cybersecurity; buffer overflows
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Publication:
Journal Article (DOI)

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Document History:
12/01/16: Journal Article (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy
vulnerability management

Technologies
software & firmware