A buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory.

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Suggested reading list: OS exploits

In computer security, my areas of interest include x86 processors, binary exploitation and reverse engineering. I'm also interested in the certain aspects of the minix and the linux kernel(memory ...
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Does using many XML parsers (XDocument, XMLDocument) from the public Internet increase attack surface area?

I am coding an anonymous WCF service that allows others to post XML into it. Does using different kinds of XML parsers XDocument, XMLDocument, or even 3rd party parsers increase the attack surface ...

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