(This article was written for the MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security class to supplement lecture content, but is not intended to be a replacement for attending lectures. The 2020 lecture video can be found here.) What comes to mind when you hear the buzzword “containerization”? Perhaps you have heard of software packages such as Virtuozzo, […]
Tag: Appsec
Update 06/2018: Added thread-local caching (tcache) Introduction to glibc malloc What is the heap? If you’ve taken an operating systems class before, you might recall that it is a free-floating region of memory that is managed by a memory allocator. When using a memory allocator to allocate memory, we call it dynamic memory allocation. In […]