Malvuln is the creation of security researcher John Page (aka hyp3rlinx), who told SecurityWeek that he came up with the idea when he got bored during a COVID-19 lockdown.

The Malvuln website currently has 26 entries describing remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities and privilege escalation flaws related to insecure permissions. The list of targeted malware includes backdoors and trojans, as well as one email worm (Zhelatin). A vast majority of the buffer overflow bugs can be exploited for remote code execution, the expert said.