A heap overflow is a class of memory corruption occurring on the heap. It can potentially be used to exploit the faulty program.
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Why would a heap buffer overflow cause a crash on only some Windows 10 systems?
I have a stl::vector (VS 2010 SP1, x86) out-of-bounds read access attempt that causes a crash on only three Windows 10 systems. It is completely reproducible on those systems, but cannot be reproduced on other systems (Windows 10 or otherwise),…
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Are stack & heap overflow exploits no longer effective?
Do all new OSes implement the no execute bit in order to overcome vulnerabilities that could be used to execute malicious code? for example, is it implemented in Win7? Does that mean that the traditional way of stack & heap overflow exploits are no…
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want to know about heap exploit
I am practicing my heap exploit skill with following website.
http://hatriot.github.io/blog/2014/09/21/protostar-heap-exploits/.
But under the title of heap 3 exploit,
I didnot understand with what it does.
(gdb) r AAAA$(python -c 'print "A"*28 +…
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