malloc: Security implications of tcache

[Ondřej Bílka]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:31:45PM -0800, Moritz Eckert wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I was wondering if people are aware of the security implications of
> the tcache structure?

Thats pointless, as checks are there just to help developers fix their
errors, nothing more. 

It couldn't prevent anything, attacker could just overwrite pointers of
  user applications for same effect instead relying on this.