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Melting the Flesh of PHP’s Memory Hardening

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It is found that although the new protection measures aimed at stopping popular heap exploit techniques or restricting the exploit strategy space can effectively defend against the exploitation of most vulnerabilities, the attack strategies proposed by this work can still make these vulnerabilities exploitable again.

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