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A Call to ARMs: Understanding the Costs and Benefits of JIT Spraying Mitigations

Wilson Lian,H. Shacham,S. Savage

2017 · DOI: 10.14722/NDSS.2017.23108
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium · 7 Citations

TLDR

An empirical evaluation of mitigations with low but non-zero overhead in a unified framework finds that full, robust defense implementations of diversification defenses can effectively mitigate JIT spraying attacks in the literature as well as new attacks against Google's V8 and Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engines on ARM.