On July 16, Brad Spengler disclosed an easily-exploitable kernel vulnerability based on getting the kernel to dereference a null pointer. This security hole affected a version of the kernel which had ...

While Java is one of the most in-demand and widely used programming languages in the world, it is not without its detractors. Java is not a particularly beginner-friendly language and it is rife with ...

Since the zero page can be mapped and therefore 0x0 is a valid address, the zero bit pattern should not be used for the null pointer. The null pointer is supposed to be an invalid pointer that never ...

A low-severity vulnerability was found in all versions of the open source graphics library libpng dating back to 1995. The vulnerability, which has been patched, could have been used for remote denial ...