memory-safety

Community Stage·40 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Julian 'Julez' Dunning

Julian Dunning introduces core video game security principles, memory inspection concepts, and reverse engineering fundamentals for aspiring game hackers.

CONFidence 2025·41 min

• CONFIDENCE
• Wireless
• Date: 2025
• Location: Confidence

Adam Zabrocki

Presenters detail vulnerability discovery and exploitation in Adam Zabrocki - Software Vulnerabilities and the Unsolved Problem of Memory Safety.

Ekoparty Security Conference·35 min

• EKOPARTY
• Blue Team
• Date: 2025
• Location: Ekoparty

Sebastian Fernandez

Investigates sebastian Fernandez - The quest to memory safety and evaluates key implications for security practitioners.

Main Stage·43 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Tim 'diff' Becker

Presents an automated framework for generating universal return-oriented programming chains and bypassing ASLR across modern operating system binaries.

Main Stage·36 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2025
• Location: Las Vegas

Agostino Panico

Examines vulnerability patterns in the Linux eBPF verifier and JIT compiler, demonstrating root privilege escalation via memory corruption.

PROIDEA Events·34 min

• PROIDEA
• Community
• Date: 2025
• Location: Proidea

Andreas Bogk

Andreas Bogk investigates CONFidence 2014: Preventing violation of memory safety in C/C++ software.

The Linux Foundation·25 min

• LINUX FOUNDATION
• Blue Team
• Date: 2025
• Location: Linux Foundation

Explores lightning Talk: Protecting Zephyr Against Memory Safety Vulnerabilities With the... Jennifer Jackson and evaluates key implications for security practitioners.

Main Stage·48 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2024
• Location: Las Vegas

Stephen Sims

Evolution of binary exploitation techniques, hardware and OS mitigations, and the future of low-level vulnerability research.

S4x24·27 min

• S4X
• ICS / OT
• Date: 2024
• Location: S4X

Outlines stop Panicking Over Patching: CHERI Morello Memory Safety and evaluates key implications for security practitioners.

Main Stage·45 min

• DEF CON
• Mobile
• Date: May 2018
• Location: Beijing

Samit Anwer

Samit Anwer presents Androsia, an automated tool utilizing interprocedural data flow analysis and bytecode rewriting to eliminate secrets lingering in Android memory.

Main Stage·42 min

• DEF CON
• Red Team
• Date: Aug 2015
• Location: Las Vegas

Luke Young

Luke Young explores the economics and operational feasibility of weaponizing hardware memory errors and bit-flips against modern operating system kernels.