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Serious Unpatched Vulnerability Uncovered in Popular Belkin Wemo Smart Plugs

The second generation version of Belkin’s Wemo Mini Smart Plug has been found to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be weaponized by a threat actor to inject arbitrary commands remotely. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-27217, was discovered and reported to Belkin on January 9, 2023, by Israeli IoT security company Sternum, which […]

Critical Ping Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Take Over FreeBSD Systems

The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system have released updates to remediate a security vulnerability impacting the ping module that could be potentially exploited to crash the program or trigger remote code execution. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-23093, impacts all supported versions of FreeBSD and concerns a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the ping […]

OpenSSL Releases Patch for 2 New High-Severity Vulnerabilities

The OpenSSL project has rolled out fixes to contain two high-severity flaws in its widely used cryptography library that could result in a denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, have been described as buffer overrun vulnerabilities that can be triggered during X.509 certificate verification by supplying a specially-crafted […]

Critical Wi-Fi Bug In Linux Let Hackers Take Complete Control and Crash The System Remotely

A newly discovered critical Wi-Fi vulnerability in Linux lets attackers compromise the system with the help of nearby Wi-Fi devices and crush the vulnerable machine. The vulnerability resides in the “rtlwifi” driver that mainly supports the Realtek Wi-Fi chips model used in Linux devices. By exploiting the vulnerability, the attacker will trigger the buffer overflow […]

Cisco Released Patches for More than 30 Vulnerabilities Including the 5 Critical One’s in FXOS and NX-OS

Cisco released patches for 34 vulnerabilities affecting multiple products that include 5 critical vulnerabilities, 20 High severity vulnerabilities and 9 medium level vulnerabilities. Critical Vulnerabilities Cisco patched 5 critical Vulnerabilities in FXOS and NX-OS Software that allows attackers to execute a remote arbitrary code that causing a buffer overflow, denial of service (DoS), to read […]

How To Remotely Exploit Buffer Overflow In Python

What Is Buffer Overflow? In the area of computer security and programming, a buffer overflow or buffer overflow is an anomaly in which a program, when writing data in a buffer, invades the buffer boundary and overwrites the buffer overflow locations. memory. Buffers are memory areas reserved for storing data, often moving them from one […]

6 Critical RCE and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in IBM Informix Dynamic Server and Informix Open Admin Tool

IBM Informix Dynamic Server and Informix Open Admin Tool contains 6 Critical Vulnerabilities including RCE and a Buffer overflow in HEAP. IBM Informix Dynamic Server for high-volume online Data server for transaction processing (OLTP), integrated applications, and now breathtakingly fast data warehouse/analytical workloads. IDS is well known for its hands-free administration. To make server administration even […]

Around 8 million websites affected by a critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability resides in IIS 6.0

Internet Information Services is an extensible web server made by Microsoft for use with the Windows NT family.IIS can help you achieve better performance, reliability, scalability, and security for your websites. The IIS6.0 zero-day flaw was found by two scientists with the Information Security Lab and School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of […]

How to Write A Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit Using Python

Welcome back guys, today we will learn how to write a remote buffer overflow using Python programming language only with TCP. What you actually need: -Python 3.4(or above) -A stable internet connection -A vulnerable server -Computer with Windows or Linux Operating System If you don’t have Python installed on your computer you can download it from https://www.python.org/downloads/. […]