The last technique from the “Malloc Maleficarum” is different from all the others because, among the requirements, there’s a stack overflow. THE HOUSE OF SPIRIT Ingredients: The attacker can control a location of memory higher than the one he’s trying to change: the exact location depends on the fake size of the chunk we’re free-ing […]

It’s time now to talk about one of the most obscure (probably) techniques described by Phantasmal Phantasmagoria in his “Malloc Maleficarum“: THE HOUSE OF LORE When the “Malloc Maleficarum” was published, as it was a purely theoretical article, contained no real exploit implementations or practical examples. Things got a little bit better with blackngel’s “Malloc […]