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How can a wireless workstation be subject to buffer overflow attacks?

April 26, 2017attacks buffer overflow Subject Wireless Workstation

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How can a wireless workstation be subject to buffer overflow attacks?

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Unless a workstation is running a personal firewall, other machines on the same subnet as the workstation can communicate with the system across all TCP and UDP ports. The corporate firewall only blocks malicious traffic from the outside world; it does nothing to prevent attacks from within.