Conceptheap overflow
Heap Overflow
A class of memory-safety vulnerability in which an attacker writes data beyond the boundaries of a heap-allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory structures. Exploitation can lead to arbitrary code execution or control-flow hijacking.
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Sep 20
Integer overflow can be used to trigger a heap overflow, where an attacker constructs input that causes a memory allocation calculation to wrap around to an extremely small value, allocates an insufficiently sized buffer, and then writes excess data to gain code execution privileges.
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