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👉 Overview
👀 What ?
Fast Bin Attack is a technique used in the exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities. It specifically targets the fast bins in glibc's malloc implementation, allowing the attacker to overwrite arbitrary memory locations.
🧐 Why ?
Fast Bin Attack is important because it's a powerful technique that can bypass certain security protections, such as address space layout randomization (ASLR). It also allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code, which can lead to system compromise. Readers should be interested in this topic to understand how these attacks work, which can help in developing effective countermeasures.
⛏️ How ?
To perform a Fast Bin Attack, an attacker first needs to trigger a buffer overflow in a fast bin chunk. The overflow is used to overwrite the forward pointer of a free chunk in a fast bin, which will then point to an arbitrary memory location. When the next allocation request is made for a chunk of the same size, the arbitrary location will be returned instead.
⏳ When ?
Fast Bin Attacks have been used for several years, but they've gained more attention recently due to the increasing use of security protections that they can bypass.
⚙️ Technical Explanations
Fast bins are singly-linked lists of recently freed chunks of memory, which are intended to be reused quickly. An attacker can exploit this by overwriting a forward pointer in a free chunk to point to an arbitrary memory location. This can lead to arbitrary write capabilities, which can, in turn, lead to code execution. It's a complex attack that requires a deep understanding of memory management and the specifics of glibc's malloc implementation.