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Application Security Heap Exploitation

glibc Heap Exploitation: House of Force

(Update 05/2019: Made a note that this method is now patched in glibc>=2.29) The “House of Force” is a glibc heap overflow exploitation technique first named in the archived email “Malloc Maleficarum” by Phantasmal Phantasmagoria, and subsequently a PoC surfaced online in the Phrack magazine. Vector The House of Force technique overwrites the top chunk […]