The toddler’s introduction to Heap Exploitation, House of Spirit(Part 4.4)

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House of Spirit

The specific attack was initially introduced on October 11th 2005, on the bugtraq mailing list by Phantasmal Phantasmagoria, with the title The Malloc Maleficarum. The idea is very simple and got even simpler with the introduction of the Thread Local Cache (tcache):

The general idea involves overwriting a pointer that was previously returned by a call to malloc(), and that is subsequently passed …

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