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An 18-year-old heap buffer overflow in NGINX gives attackers remote code execution — billions of devices run the affected module

A single rewrite rule, the kind pasted into NGINX configurations thousands of times a day, can hand an unauthenticated attacker full remote code execution on the underlying server. The vulnerability, ...
InfoWorld

Hot code heap proposal would speed Java execution

To reduce application execution time, Java’s segmented code cache would be extended with an optional “hot” code heap to compactly accommodate a part of non-profiled methods, under a draft JDK ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code 1.66 shines on JavaScript heap profiles, CSS formatting

Visual Studio Code 1.66, also identified as the March 2022 release of the code editor, has just been published by Microsoft. The new release brings improvements to JavaScript heap profiles, CSS code ...
Bleeping Computer

Over 660,000 Rsync servers exposed to code execution attacks

Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that allows remote code execution on servers. Rsync is ...
Bleeping Computer

Cisco warns of denial of service flaw with PoC exploit code

Cisco has released security updates to patch a ClamAV denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, which has proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. Tracked as CVE-2025-20128, the vulnerability is caused by a ...