allocators

ram (computer memory)

Memory Management

• Lobster language - https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/memory%5Fmanagement.html

Allocators

• Scudo

• Hoard Allocator

• jemalloc

• Dieharder

• Poseidon Allocator

• Allocator Aware Infrastructure

• Comparisons

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### More Papers *  The Shadow over Android

Exploiting the jemalloc Memory Allocator: Owning Firefox’s Heap

Attacking the Webkit Heap

Windows 8 Heap Internals

Windows 10 Segment Heap Internals

Heap Layout Optimization for Exploitation

FreeGuard: A Faster Secure Heap Allocator

    * Academic “fast & secure” heap allocator by the University of Texas (2017)     * https://github.com/UTSASRG/FreeGuard

DieHarder: securing the heap

    * Academic “security-focused” allocator by the University of Massachusetts (2010)     * https://github.com/emeryberger/diehard

OpenBSD’s ottomalloc

    * Said operating system’s default usermode allocator, robust by design

Intel C++ Compiler C++14 incorrect sized delete compiled code

    * Discovered via the sized delete mismatch optional check     * Envoy double-free/use-after-free     * Discovered internally in L7 ILB     * https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/4244     * https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/6136 #+end_src