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How Mayhem Helped Uncover a Security Vulnerability in RustOS (CVE-2022-36086)

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Earlier this year, I reported a security vulnerability in Rust’s linked-list-allocator to the RustOS Dev team, which was assigned CVE-2022-36086. This library is designed for use in embedded and bootloader contexts, where we don't have the standard library's Vec or Box for dynamic memory. CVE-2022-36086. The Target.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Ethereum Smart Contracts

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All within the first two months of 2022. Vamosi: In a previous episode --episode 39 -- I talked with researcher Guido Vranken about fuzzing cryptographic libraries and also his work fuzzing cryptocurrencies. At the end of January 2022, researchers disclosed they’d found vulnerability in a service built around Router Protocol.