[Discuss] Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - Securing the Gnu C Library

[announce at lists.blu.org (Jerry Feldman via Announce)]

When: May? 21, 2025 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A)

Topic: Securing the Gnu C Library

Presenter:? Benjamin P. Kallus

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Meeting will be recorded, but not live streamed. Recordings will be 
posted: https://blu.org/video/

Summary:

An analysis of security of the glibc heap

Abstract

Ben discusses his work on securing the Gnu C library, and reviews how 
the allocator works, talks about how its structure makes it exploitable 
in some circumstances, and explores some of the hardening patches he's 
submitted and how they fix some of these problems.

Ben has previously given talks at BLU on Differential Fuzzing 
(2024-01-17) and Reproducible Builds and Deployments with NixOS 
(2022-10-19).


Links:

https://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2022-oct
https://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2024-jan
https://kallus.org/
https://web.cs.dartmouth.edu/people/benjamin-p-kallus


For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org

Our meeting recordings are found on the Video tab: http://blu.org/video/

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Jerry Feldman<gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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