What is heap spraying?

by | Mar 9, 2017 | CCNA, CCNP, CompTIA, Most Common Vulnerabilities

HeapSpraying

in the heap section of the process. After that, they trigger a bug, make the instruction pointer point to the predetermined location, and facilitate the execution of the malicious code.

How to detect and prevent heap spraying?

There are a few ways of detecting and preventing heap spraying :

  • The Nozzle Project of Microsoft Research aims to detect and prevent heap spraying.
  • The BuBBle is another countermeasure that can be used in detecting and prevention heap spraying. The BuBBle is basically a JavaScript Engine-level countermeasure for heap spraying.

 
This article gives a brief overview of heap spraying. Interested readers who want to know more about different web application vulnerabilities may want to refer to the book “Web Application Vulnerabilities And Prevention.”

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Amrita Mitra

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Ms. Amrita Mitra is an author, who has authored the books “Cryptography And Public Key Infrastructure“, “Web Application Vulnerabilities And Prevention“, “A Guide To Cyber Security” and “Phishing: Detection, Analysis And Prevention“. She is also the founder of Asigosec Technologies, the company that owns The Security Buddy.

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