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Code cave

A code cave is a series of unused bytes in a process' memory. The code cave inside a process's memory is often a reference to a section that has capacity for injecting custom instructions.

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A code cave1 is a series of unused bytes in a process' memory. The code cave inside a process's memory is often a reference to a section that has capacity for injecting custom instructions.

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  1. Uğurlu, Güney; Açıcı, Koray (September 2022). "An Analysis Tool that Detects The Code Caves in Specified Sizes for Portable Executable Files". ieeexplore.ieee.org. 2022 International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Computer Science and Engineering (ICTASCE). pp. 38–41. doi:10.1109/ICTACSE50438.2022.10009843. Retrieved 25 October 2025.