README.md

cache_v2 (mini writeup)

• Bug: reference count can wrap around, leading to a UAF.
• Create the large victim cache and duplicate it 256 times. This will set its reference count to 1.
• Create a smaller cache, then free the victim cache through an alias. Victim cache's buffer will go into the unsorted bin.
• Read 8 bytes the victim cache. This will give us an unsorted fd pointer. Since this is not the only unsorted chunk, fd is a heap pointer, not a libc pointer.
• Use the leaked heap pointer in order to calculate the victim cache address.
• Allocate the attacker cache that is 0x18 bytes large. Its buffer will overlap with the victim cache.
• Write into the attacker cache in order to make the victim cache cover the entire address space.
• Read the unsorted bk pointer of the original victim buffer. This will reveal the libc address.
• The rest is the same as in cache_v1.