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Melting the Flesh of PHP's Memory Hardening

AI-collected research leads through 3 November 2026, including a November–October–September missed-article review and a targeted multilingual search alongside earlier community-source sweeps. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.

PHP's heap hardening initiative set out to stop popular heap exploitation techniques. The first security study of it finds the mitigations defeat current-generation exploits but not adapted ones: it names the flaw that lets specific mitigations be bypassed and gives new strategies generic across built-in PHP objects from an out-of-bounds write or use-after-free - even a single-byte overflow.

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Yifan Wu, Xiaochuan Yu and Zhiyun Qian

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