His presentation explored a variety of techniques for exploiting a type of bug known as a "dangling pointer." At the end of presentation, he exploited a dangling pointer to take control of a ...

Allowing a pointer to outlive the value it points to creates an insidious bug known as a dangling reference. For example, if a C function returns a reference to one of its local variables and then ...

A link or pointer to an instruction, table element, index item, etc. that no longer contains the same content. If the reference is not a currently valid address, or if it is valid but there is no ...

Known as references, these pointers have a C-like syntax but with a few new wrinkles: In less safe languages, such a facility would risk dangling references or data corruption, while also ...