The toddler’s introduction to Heap exploitation — Overflows(Part 3)

The toddler’s introduction to Heap exploitation, Overflows (Part 3)

In the previous parts (1, 2) of these posts I had been discussing about the heap structure and I went through some basic concepts, in order to build a better background for this and the upcoming posts. You probably have realised by now the broad attack surface that the heap allocation mechanisms bring with, mainly due to their complexity. Adding to this the fact that we only touched …

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