Heap overflow

Known as: Heap, Heap exploit, Overflow 
A heap overflow is a type of buffer overflow that occurs in the heap data area. Heap overflows are exploitable in a different manner to that of stack… (More)
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2017
2017
Towards Efficient Heap Overflow Discovery
Heap overflow is a prevalent memory corruption vulnerability, playing an important role in recent attacks. Finding such… (More)
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2016
2016
Provably-Secure Remote Memory Attestation for Heap Overflow Protection
Memory corruption attacks may lead to complete takeover of systems. There are numerous works offering protection mechanisms for… (More)
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2013
2013
HeapSentry: Kernel-Assisted Protection against Heap Overflows
The last twenty years have witnessed the constant reaction of the security community to memory corruption attacks and the… (More)
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2013
2013
Defending against Heap Overflow by Using Randomization in Nested Virtual Clusters
Heap based buffer overflows are a dangerous class of vulnerability. One countermeasure is randomizing the location of heap memory… (More)
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2012
2012
HeapDefender: A Mechanism of Defending Embedded Systems against Heap Overflow via Hardware
Buffer overflow attacks have been causing serious security problems for decades. While numerous approaches have been proposed to… (More)
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2010
2010
Diagnosing memory leaks using graph mining on heap dumps
Memory leaks are caused by software programs that prevent the reclamation of memory that is no longer in use. They can cause… (More)
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2008
2008
Engineering Heap Overflow Exploits with JavaScript
This paper presents a new technique for exploiting heap overflows in JavaScript interpreters. Briefly, given a heap overflow… (More)
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
Making context-sensitive points-to analysis with heap cloning practical for the real world
Context-sensitive pointer analysis algorithms with full "heapcloning" are powerful but are widely considered to be too expensive… (More)
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2006
2006
HeapShield : Library-Based Heap Overflow Protection for Free
While numerous approaches have been proposed to prevent stack overflows, heap overflows remain both a security vulnerability and… (More)
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
PointGuardâ„¢: Protecting Pointers from Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Despite numerous security technologies crafted to resist buffer overflow vulnerabilities, buffer overflows continue to be the… (More)
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