Protecting memory operations involving zero byte allocations
Applications are protected from being exposed to exploits and instabilities due to memory operations involving zero byte allocations. Memory operations involving a zero byte allocation are handled by a zero byte memory manager. When an application requests a zero byte allocation, a pointer to a prot...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Applications are protected from being exposed to exploits and instabilities due to memory operations involving zero byte allocations. Memory operations involving a zero byte allocation are handled by a zero byte memory manager. When an application requests a zero byte allocation, a pointer to a protected part of memory is returned such that when the application attempts to read and/or write to the location the program flow is interrupted. |
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