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- 20 Jun 2014
Isolated Heap & Friends - Object Allocation Hardening in Web Browsers
Web browsers have implemented object allocation hardening techniques to mitigate use-after-free vulnerabilities. These techniques include Internet Explorer's Isolated Heap, Firefox's Presentation Arena, and Chrome's PartitionAlloc. Each approach aims to constrain memory allocation strategies and make exploitation more difficult by separating object types and controlling memory reuse.