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Buffer Overflows for Beginners

Great video I came across breaking down and explaining the very basic concepts of Buffer Overflows that is very straight forward and understandable.



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.
(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.
(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?
(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.
(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.
C and C++ are still dominating Rust.


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