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It deals with the study and practice of protecting software systems and applications from security threats, such as unauthorized access, data theft, and other malicious activities. This category encompasses a wide range of topics, including cryptography, access control, security protocols, secure programming, software exploitation, and vulnerability assessment. The subtopics within this category may also encompass security in specific domains, such as cloud computing, mobile systems, and web applications, as well as more general topics, such as software security engineering, risk management, and security testing.

Software and application security in ACM Computing Classification

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3492321.3519580

Hardening Binaries against More Memory Errors

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Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability arises when dynamic memory is misused during program execution. If a program fails to reset the pointer to a memory location after freeing it, an attacker can exploit this error to compromise the program or relative program that is using same memory location

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