A type of security flaw in Perl applications that experts thought could lead only to a denial-of-service attack is now believed to be much more serious. Dyad Security on Tuesday warned of a so-called ...

The Perl Foundation has toned down a warning on a type of vulnerability commonly found in applications written in the Perl programming language. Two weeks after experts sounded an alarm on so-called ...

Format string vulnerabilities. Format strings are what tell, say, a printer how to present letters and numbers on a page. If a user inputs rogue code into the format string, they can take control of ...

The security firm also warned of additional vulnerabilities, including a telnet issue involving the “hostmessage” command which could be exploited to view data from the connected device’s process ...