(You can read all this information in more detail on
http://blog.skylined.nl)
Software components such as memory managers often use magic values to
mark memory as having a certain state. These magic values can be used
during debugging to determine the state of the memory, and have often
(but not a
Obviously, this may be of interest to authors of security software that
aims to mitigate exploitation of 0-day: it should be possible to:
1) actively reserve memory regions referenced by such pointers to
prevent allocation by an exploit. The additional address space
fragmentation should not be a pr
I've released a Proof-of-Concept html page that uses Javascript typed
arrays in 32-bit Chrome and Firefox on 64-bit Windows to allocated
address 0xDEADBEEF and store the value 0xBADC0DED there. You can find
this and details on the implementation at
http://blog.skylined.nl/20160622001.html.
That pa