The toddler’s introduction to Heap exploitation, Use After Free & Double free (Part 4)

This post is part of a series of articles related to x64 Linux Binary Exploitation techniques. Following up from my previous posts, we’ve started by exploring simple stack corruption bugs and their mitigation techniques and gradually moved to more complex topics. In this article and in the context of the Heap Memory exploitation, we are going to discuss about using memory that has been previously freed, a concept which is widely known as Use-After-Free (UAF)

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