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Uninitialized Memory Disclosures in Web Applications

Image libraries and similar parsers can pad their output with uninitialised heap memory when fed malformed input, so a picture processed and returned by a web application carries fragments of server memory such as credentials or pointers. The post introduces a paper on detecting the bug class and releases test images and tooling for it.

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