Heap Glossary
Browse 3 heap terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Heap Terms
- Heap Exploitation
- The process of turning a bug in heap memory management, such as corruption of allocator metadata or object layouts, into controlled program behavior like...
- Heap Overflow
- A memory corruption bug where data written to heap-allocated memory exceeds the intended bounds and overwrites adjacent objects or allocator state. Heap...
- Malloc
- The C standard library function (`memory allocate`) that requests a block of uninitialized heap memory of a specified size in bytes, returning a void pointer...
Related Topics
- Memory Corruption (2 terms in common)
- Vulnerabilities (1 terms in common)
- C (1 terms in common)
- Exploitation (1 terms in common)
- Memory Management (1 terms in common)