A single rewrite rule, the kind pasted into NGINX configurations thousands of times a day, can hand an unauthenticated ...

AFAIK, IANAP:<BR> <BR>Some programming languages (C, for instance) have certain functions that <I>do not</I> check whether an argument is too big for its buffer, eg printf(). There are functions that ...

For roughly 18 years, a chunk of code inside one of the internet’s most popular web servers quietly carried a critical ...

NGINX Rift CVE-2026-42945 scores 9.2 after 18 years, enabling unauthenticated RCE or DoS via crafted HTTP requests.

Last week I summarized the difficulties in preventing buffer overflows in complex software and introduced fuzzers. With multiple buffer overflows announced every week on some of the world’s most ...

Researchers at code vulnerability analysis firm Depthfirst analysed the source code for NGINX using their artificial ...

The federal directive forbids vendors from shipping software with such flaws, and flags recent Microsoft, and Ivanti zero-days as examples. FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory to warn software ...

A lot of the recent MS security patches are buffer related. "Unchecked buffer" this, "buffer overflow" that, etc, etc...<BR><BR>This may be a very deep question, but I'm going to ask it anyway in ...

An 18-year-old flaw in the NGINX open-source web server, discovered using an autonomous scanning system, can be exploited for ...

Critical flaws affecting core components and extensions in PostgreSQL and MariaDB could allow remote code execution. The bugs ...