DangZero: Efficient Use-After-Free Detection via Direct Page Table Access
Floris Gorter, Koen Koning, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida
2022Year
15Citations
15Top-tier citations
Abstract
Use-after-free vulnerabilities remain difficult to detect and mitigate, making them a popular source of exploitation. Existing solutions incur impractical performance/memory overhead, require specialized hardware, and/or guarantee only protection, but not detection.
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