Description
This plugin finds buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Users have to know that detecting a buffer overflow vulnerability will be only possible if the server is configured to return errors, and the application is developed in cgi-c or some other language that allows the programmer to do their own memory management.
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Options
This plugin doesn’t have any user configured options.
Source
For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, there’s always the source code to understand exactly what’s under the hood:
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Dependencies
This plugin depends on grep.error_500.
