What we did
Reverse-engineered a compiled network service, identified a use-after-free in its object-management logic, and turned it into arbitrary code execution against the remote target. The chain required controlling heap layout so a freed object was reallocated with attacker-controlled data, then redirecting a corrupted function pointer into a controlled sequence.
- Static and dynamic analysis of the binary to map allocation and free paths
- Heap grooming to place attacker data into a dangling reference
- Leak primitive to defeat ASLR, then control-flow hijack to code execution
- Remote, repeatable exploitation — not a local crash
Why it matters to a client
Most application testers stop at the web tier. Memory-corruption skill matters when your product ships a compiled component — an on-prem agent, a native service, an embedded device, or a parser handling untrusted input. The same instinct that turns a use-after-free into RCE is what finds the deep bug a scanner never sees.
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