Topic: Securing the Gnu C Library
Presenter: Benjamin P. Kallus
Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org
Meeting will be recorded, but not live streamed. Recordings will be
posted: https://blu.org/video/
Summary:
An analysis of security of the glibc heap
Abstract
Ben discusses his work on securing the Gnu C library, and reviews how
the allocator works, talks about how its structure makes it exploitable
in some circumstances, and explores some of the hardening patches he's
submitted and how they fix some of these problems.
Ben has previously given talks at BLU on Differential Fuzzing
(2024-01-17) and Reproducible Builds and Deployments with NixOS
(2022-10-19).
Links:
https://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2022-oct
https://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2024-jan
https://kallus.org/
https://web.cs.dartmouth.edu/people/benjamin-p-kallus
For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org
Our meeting recordings are found on the Video tab: http://blu.org/video/
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Jerry Feldman<gaf.linux@gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unixhttp://www.blu.org
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