Code Pointer Masking: Hardening Applications against Code Injection Attacks
Code Pointer Masking: Hardening Applications against Code Injection Attacks
Pieter Philippaerts,Yves Younan,3 Authors,Thomas Walter
2011 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22424-9_12
International Conference on Detection of intrusions and malware, and vulnerability assessment · 20 Citations
TLDR
This paper presents an efficient countermeasure against code injection attacks that protects against attacks that are not addressed by state-of-the-art countermeasures of similar performance by enforcing the correct semantics of code pointers.