2014-08-26 19:55:32.327286+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Google Project Zero: The poisoned NUL byte, 2014 edition. Fascinating account of figuring out how to exploit an off-by-one error in glibc's memory allocation code into privilege escalation. Good things to think about for any coder, especially anyone working in C or C++, but also in how we think about building larger systems.
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