Posted by Berend-Jan Wever on Jun 24
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 problem for most applications, but I have
no data, so you might want to consider:
2) analyze various binaries for their use of magic values, and actively…