Linux Heap Fast Bin Poisoning part 1

In this paper, I introduce the reader to a heap metadata corruption against the current Linux Heap allocator, ptmalloc. The attack is performed via corrupting, or poisoning the fast bin such that malloc returns a near arbitrary pointer. This may allow for control flow hijacking if malloc returns a pointer to a function pointer and an attacker is able to write to that malloc returned buffer.




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