Software Architecture with Python

Common security vulnerabilities

So what are the common security vulnerabilities, a professional programmer today should be prepared to face and mitigate during the course of their career? Looking at the available literature, these can be organized into a few specific categories:

• Overflow errors: These include the popular and often abused buffer overflow errors, and the lesser known but still vulnerable arithmetic or integer overflow errors:
  • Buffer overflow: Buffer overflows are produced by programming errors that allow an application to write past the end or beginning of a buffer. Buffer overflows allow attackers to take control of systems by gaining access to the applications stack or heap memory by carefully crafted attack data.
  • Integer or arithmetic ...