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GWP-ASan  |  Android NDK  |  Android Developers

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/gwp-asan

“GWP-ASan is a native memory allocator feature that helps find use-after-free and heap-buffer-overflow bugs. Its informal name is a recursive acronym,"GWP-ASan Will Provide Allocation SANity". Unlike HWASan or Malloc Debug, GWP-ASan does not require source or recompilation (that is, works with...” (from the page’s text)

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  • https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/hwasan “GWP-ASan”
  • https://security.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-hardening-in-android-11.html “available for developer applications”
  • https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/application-element.html “GWP-ASan”
  • https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/gwp-asan “GWP-ASan”
  • https://developer.android.com/quality/technical “opting into GWP-ASan”

Sites: developer.android.com, security.googleblog.com

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