November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
650 pages
21h 33m
English
Héctor Marco, Ismael Ripoll, David de Andrés and Juan Carlos Ruiz, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
Memory errors, such as stack and integer vulnerabilities, still rank among the top most dangerous software security issues. Existing protection techniques, like Address Space Layout Randomization and Stack-Smashing Protection, prevent potential intrusions by crashing applications when anomalous behaviors are detected. Unfortunately, typical networking server architectures, such those used on Web servers ones, limit the effectiveness of such countermeasures. Since memory error exploits usually rely on highly specific processor characteristics, the same exploit ...
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