ArcHeap: Automatic Techniques to Systematically Discover New Heap Exploitation Primitives

Environment

• Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit

Installation

$ ./setup.sh
$ ./install_dependencies.sh
$ ./build.sh

Installation using Docker

$ ./setup.sh
$ docker build -t archeap .
$ docker run -it archeap /bin/bash

How to use

Please check our artifact.

Trophies

• Overlapping chunks with double free in mimalloc
• Overlapping chunks with double free in DieHarder
• Overlapping chunks with negative size allocation in mesh
• Arbitrary chunks with overflow in ptmalloc2
• Several other techniques

Authors

• Insu Yun (insu@gatech.edu)
• Dhaval Kapil (me@dhavalkapil.com)
• Taesoo Kim (taesoo@gatech.edu)

Publications

@inproceedings{yun:archeap,
  title        = {{Automatic Techniques to Systematically Discover New Heap Exploitation Primitives}},
  author       = {Insu Yun and Dhaval Kapil and Taesoo Kim},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium (Security)},
  month        = aug,
  year         = 2020,
}