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Exploitation Demystified, Part 3: Heap-Based Exploits

In my previous blog post in the Exploitation Demystified series, we learned how memory corruption exploits are implemented using stack-based overflow vulnerabilities. Let’s talk now about a main alternative path: heap-based vulnerabilities.

An operating system (OS) allocates memory to a computer program, with respect to the size of the data this program consumes, which is either known bef...

Apr 13, 2016

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