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Assessment Title
Rule Text
AlmaLinux OS 9 must clear the page allocator to prevent use-after-free attacks.
Description
Discussion Text
Poisoning writes an arbitrary value to freed pages, so any modification or reference to that page after being freed or before being initialized will be detected and prevented.
This prevents many types of use-after-free vulnerabilities at little performance cost. This also prevents data leaks and detects corrupted memory.
This prevents many types of use-after-free vulnerabilities at little performance cost. This also prevents data leaks and detects corrupted memory.
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