Linux Exploits & Mitigation: Memory and Pointer Vulnerabilities

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Memory and pointer vulnerabilities come from a number of common programmer mistakes. Being able to recognize debug and fix unsafe memory allocation and access errors is essential to avoiding vulnerabilities. In this course you ll explore how memory and pointer vulnerabilities arise and how they lead to program errors and exploits.

You ll look at how memory is allocated and accessed in a typical C program. You ll investigate what causes heap and stack overflows use-after-free (UAF) vulnerabilities and out-of-bounds access errors. In addition you ll recognize dangling pointers NULL dereferences and off-by-one loops. Finally you ll delve into how coding errors lead to corrupted memory and arbitrary code execution.”