Module: Dynamic Allocator Misuse

This module explores the abuse of heap operations and heap datastructures during exploitation.

Lectures

The lectures for this module are:

• Dynamic Allocator Misuse: What is the Heap? (slides here)
• Dynamic Allocator Misuse: Dangers of the Heap (slides here)
• Dynamic Allocator Misuse: tcache (slides here)
• Dynamic Allocator Misuse: Chunks and Metadata (slides here)
• Dynamic Allocator Misuse: Metadata Corruption (slides here)

Practice

Practice problems for this module are live on the dojo!

Further reading

• Documentation about malloc internals.
• A repository with heap misuse examples: how2heap.