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Defeating Zombie Gadgets by Re-randomizing Code upon Disclosure

Micah Morton,Hyungjoon Koo,3 Authors,F. Monrose

2017 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62105-0_10
Engineering Secure Software and Systems · 4 Citations

TLDR

This work presents a low-overhead, binary-compatible defense which ensures an attacker is unable to execute gadgets that were identified through code reloading or code inference, and demonstrates that this approach effectively prevents zombie gadget attacks with negligible runtime overhead.