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Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits

An article summarizing the experiment.

If TLDR, see the poem at the end :)

https://a13xp0p0v.github.io/2020/11/30/slab-quarantine.html
Alexander Popov Linux kernel heap quarantine versus use-after-free exploits It's 2020. Quarantines are everywhere – and here I'm writing about one, too. But this quarantine is of a different kind. In this article I'll describe the Linux Kernel Heap Quarantine that I developed for mitigating kernel use-after-free exploitation.
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