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Daniel Micay 2020-12-17 01:34:24 -05:00
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<li>Our own <a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc">hardened malloc (memory allocator)</a> <li>Our own <a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc">hardened malloc (memory allocator)</a>
leveraging modern hardware capabilities to provide substantial defenses against leveraging modern hardware capabilities to provide substantial defenses against
the most common classes of vulnerabilities (heap memory corruption) along with the most common classes of vulnerabilities (heap memory corruption) along with
reducing the lifetime of sensitive data in memory. The hardened_malloc project is reducing the lifetime of sensitive data in memory. The
portable to other Linux-based operating systems and is being adopted by other
security-focused operating systems like Whonix. The
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/blob/master/README.md">hardened_malloc <a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/blob/master/README.md">hardened_malloc
README</a> has extensive documentation on it. Our allocator also heavily influenced the README</a> has extensive documentation on it. The hardened_malloc project is
portable to other Linux-based operating systems and is being adopted by other
security-focused operating systems like Whonix. Our allocator also heavily influenced the
design of the <a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2020/05/13/1">next-generation design of the <a href="https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2020/05/13/1">next-generation
musl malloc implementation</a> which offers substantially better security than musl's musl malloc implementation</a> which offers substantially better security than musl's
previous malloc while still having minimal memory usage and code size.</li> previous malloc while still having minimal memory usage and code size.</li>