heap-exploitation

heap-exploitation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DorianGallo/hack-skills-local. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,527 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of heap-exploitation, MIT.

A guide to exploiting memory-management bugs in the heap, the area of memory used for dynamically allocated data. It focuses on glibc's ptmalloc2 allocator, used by many Linux programs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analysing vulnerable Linux binaries and developing heap attacks involving memory leaks, arbitrary writes, or code execution.
Why use it?
It helps testers choose techniques that fit the allocator version and the specific bug, such as use-after-free, double-free, overflow, or off-by-one errors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Analysing vulnerable Linux binaries and developing heap attacks involving memory leaks, arbitrary writes, or code execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doriangallo/hack-skills-local/heap-exploitation
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add DorianGallo/hack-skills-local --skill heap-exploitation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DorianGallo/hack-skills-local

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,527 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00053 $0.02527
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01264
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00505
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00253

Measured 10d ago against content hash aa73ba2c7b9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

heap-exploitation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to heap-exploitation — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/heap-exploitation/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Heap Exploitation — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert glibc heap exploitation techniques. Covers ptmalloc2 internals, bin structures, tcache mechanics, libc/heap leak methods, and attack selection by glibc version. Distilled from ctf-wiki heap sections, how2heap, and real-world exploitation. Base models often confuse glibc version constraints and miss safe-linking (PROTECT_PTR) introduced in 2.32.

Advanced References


1. PTMALLOC2 STRUCTURE QUICK REFERENCE

malloc_chunk Layout (64-bit)

         chunk pointer (returned by malloc - 0x10)
         ┌──────────────────────────┐
    0x00 │  prev_size (if prev free)│
    0x08 │  size        | A | M | P │  ← P=PREV_INUSE, M=IS_MMAPPED, A=NON_MAIN_ARENA
         ├──────────────────────────┤  ← user data starts here (returned pointer)
    0x10 │  fd (if free)            │  ← forward pointer to next free chunk
    0x18 │  bk (if free)            │  ← backward pointer to prev free chunk
    0x20 │  fd_nextsize (large only)│
    0x28 │  bk_nextsize (large only)│
         └──────────────────────────┘

Bin Types

Bin Size Range (64-bit) Structure LIFO/FIFO
tcache (per-thread) ≤ 0x410 (7 entries per size) Singly linked (next pointer) LIFO
fastbin ≤ 0x80 (default) Singly linked (fd) LIFO
unsortedbin Any freed size Doubly linked circular FIFO
smallbin < 0x400 Doubly linked circular FIFO
largebin ≥ 0x400 Doubly linked + size-sorted Sorted

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 218 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A aa73ba2c7b9f

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heap-exploitation is a skill published in the GitHub repository DorianGallo/hack-skills-local (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,527 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to heap-exploitation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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