M_TRIM_THRESHOLD: the size of the smallest chunk of freed memory that causes the memory management system to shrink the data segment by calling brk(). In fact, as mentioned in the article, freed data ...

The security research group for Azure Defender for IoT, dubbed Section 52, has found a batch of bad memory allocation operations in code used in Internet of Things and operational technology (OT) such ...

One of the extremely simple--yet completely crazy--compatibility behaviors available in the Application Compatibility Toolkit is called EmulateHeap. If you enable this compatibility fix on a process, ...

Researchers from the Graz University of Technology have discovered a way to convert a limited heap vulnerability in the Linux kernel into a malicious memory writes capability to demonstrate novel ...