Leveraging microarchitectural side channel information to efficiently enhance program control flow integrity

Stack buffer overflow is a serious security threat to program execution. A malicious attacker may overwrite the return address of a procedure to alter its control flow and hence change its functionality. While a number of hardware and/or software based protection schemes have been developed, these c...

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Published in:	2014 International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) : October 12-17, 2014, Jaypee Greens Golf and Spa Resort, New Delhi, India pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors:	Chen Liu, Chengmo Yang, Yuanqi Shen
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	ACM 01.10.2014
Subjects:	Accuracy Hardware Instruction Cache Monitoring Prefetching Radiation detectors Return Address Stack Runtime Security Stack Buffer Overflow
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