• Rowhammer - Flip Feng Shui

    Combining Flip-Feng-Shui and Opcode Flipping Author: Andrea Di Dio If you have any further questions or suggestions after reading this writeup feel free to contact me at a.didio@student.vu.nl or on Twitter (@hammertux). I will try to answer any questions or adopt any suggestions :) Introduction The aim of this writeup...

  • How glibc calls main()

    (g)libc is the caller of main in C programs. If you’re curious about what is happening, take a few minutes to read on and if you have gdb/objdump, you can follow along :) Note: This is valid for Linux X86-64! Starting simple If we take a simple C program: #include...

  • The Slab Allocator in the Linux kernel

    #include <linux/slab.h> Author: Andrea Di Dio If you have any further questions or suggestions after reading this writeup feel free to contact me at a.didio@student.vu.nl or on Twitter (@hammertux). I will try to answer any questions or adopt any suggestions :) Introduction Seeing as the Slab allocator is a fairly...

  • Hello World

    Hi there :) Welcome to my personal page! I will keep general stuff I find interesting and post some of my writeups on here. Hopefully, they might be interesting/useful for others as well.