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All programs using DynMalloc should verify that dynamic allocator is initialized to zero? #92

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Sword-Smith opened this issue Apr 2, 2024 · 0 comments
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All programs using DynMalloc should verify that dynamic allocator is initialized to zero? #92

Sword-Smith opened this issue Apr 2, 2024 · 0 comments

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Sword-Smith commented Apr 2, 2024 •
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If it's not verified that DynMalloc is initialized to zero, then a dynamic allocation may overwrite non-deterministically initialized memory, which is assumed to live in the $1^{st}$ memory page (address $0$ to $2^{32}$). This sounds scary to me.
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