heap-exploitation

heap-exploitation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,527 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of heap-exploitation, Apache-2.0.

A guide to exploiting memory-management bugs in the heap, the area a program uses for dynamically allocated data. It focuses on the GNU C Library allocator and flaws such as use-after-free, double-free, overflow, and off-by-one errors.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for CTFs and authorized binary-security work involving ptmalloc2, tcache, fastbins, unsorted bins, heap leaks, and allocator-specific techniques.
Why use it?
It helps connect a heap bug to allocator behavior and operating-system protections that affect whether it can become an arbitrary write or code execution.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for CTFs and authorized binary-security work involving ptmalloc2, tcache, fastbins, unsorted bins, heap leaks, and allocator-specific techniques.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/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 JustineDevs/premortem --skill heap-exploitation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

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 5d ago against content hash aa73ba2c7b9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 5d 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.

.agents/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. 5d 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 JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. 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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