Return-oriented programming poses a big threat to system defenses by exploiting existing executable code in memory, allowing attackers to bypass common mitigations, said Bramwell Brizendine, an ...

From Table 1 of the Code-Pointer Integrity (2014) paper: Safe Stack CPS CPI ----- Average (C/C++) | 0.0% 1.9% 8.4% Median (C/C++) | 0.0% 0.4% 0.4% Maximum (C/C++) | 4.1% 17.2% 44.2% ...

In this video from the SOURCE conference in Boston, security researcher Dino Dai Zovi discusses the details of return-oriented programming and the ways in which it can be used to exploit ...

Microsoft released the technology preview of a new security toolkit that uses defenses inspired by one of the contestants of its BlueHat Prize security competition, the company said on Wednesday. The ...

Several years ago, Microsoft released the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a free tool that can help Windows users beef up the security of third-party applications. This week, Microsoft ...

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Stack-smashing attacks have a long history; they featured, for example, as a core part of the Morris worm back in 1988. Restrictions on executing code on the stack have, to a great extent, put an end ...