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  CPM: masking code pointers to prevent code injection attacks
Philippaerts P., Younan Y., Muylle S., Piessens F., Lachmund S., Walter T. ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 16(1): 1-27, 2013.  Type: Article

One way for an attacker to take control of a computer is to replace the value of a code pointer or return address with the address of the attacker’s program. Code pointer masking (CPM) guards against this kind of attack by AN...
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Sep 19 2013  
  Instruction-level countermeasures against stack-based buffer overflow attacks
Gadaleta F., Younan Y., Jacobs B., Joosen W., De Neve E., Beosier N.  VTDS 2009 (Proceedings of the 1st EuroSys Workshop on Virtualization Technology for Dependable Systems, Nuremberg, Germany, Mar 31, 2009) 7-12, 2009.  Type: Proceedings

Gadaleta et al. explore the use of virtualization “to implement a countermeasure against buffer overflow attacks.” The idea is to emulate the already existing techniques--in particular, the return address d...
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Jun 22 2009  

   
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