These are really great advisories, my only wish is that they were copied to the security lists in their entirety. This
way we aren’t relying on a single point of failure (your website) when looking for the data in the future.
Over the past decade, heap sprays have become almost synonymous with
exploits in web-browsers. After having developed my first practical
implementation of a heap spray about ten years ago, I found that the
amount of memory needed in some cases was too much for a realistic
attack scenario. I needed a new kind of heap spray that did not allocate
as much RAM as traditional heap sprays do. So, I developed a heap spray
that uses significantly…
Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the
fourteenth entry in that series. Unfortunately I won’t be able to
publish everything within one month at the current rate, so I may
continue to publish these through December and January.