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Buffer Overflows for Beginners - MadScientist - Oct 9, 2025
Great video I came across breaking down and explaining the very basic concepts of Buffer Overflows that is very straight forward and understandable.
RE: Buffer Overflows for Beginners - DramaKing - Oct 10, 2025
The Cyber Mentor is a great resource, but such vulnerabilities are supposed to be declining with the introduction of Rust and other memory-safe languages.
RE: Buffer Overflows for Beginners - MadScientist - Oct 10, 2025
(Oct 10, 2025 07:58 AM)DramaKing Wrote: The Cyber Mentor is a great resource, but such vulnerabilities are supposed to be declining with the introduction of Rust and other memory-safe languages.
Yeah definitely a changing climate I took a 10 year hiatus from computers and SQLi is the same, back then you could find an injection on like 40% of sites SOMEWHERE in their apps now it's way less common.
RE: Buffer Overflows for Beginners - dmitriblovv - Dec 15, 2025
(Oct 10, 2025 07:58 AM)DramaKing Wrote: The Cyber Mentor is a great resource, but such vulnerabilities are supposed to be declining with the introduction of Rust and other memory-safe languages.
Yet Telegram still seems to be vulnerable to buffer overflow. Why is that?
RE: Buffer Overflows for Beginners - DramaKing - Dec 15, 2025
(Dec 15, 2025 02:09 AM)dmitriblovv Wrote: Yet Telegram still seems to be vulnerable to buffer overflow. Why is that?
Telegram Desktop is still coded in C++, despite a strong push for Rust from governments.
RE: Buffer Overflows for Beginners - dmitriblovv - Dec 15, 2025
(Dec 15, 2025 03:59 AM)DramaKing Wrote: Telegram Desktop is still coded in C++, despite a strong push for Rust from governments.
Okay, it also has an active RCE zero day. I found one but haven't exploited it yet.
RE: Buffer Overflows for Beginners - charlesanthony - Feb 8, 2026
C and C++ are still dominating Rust.