Secure Bit: Transparent, Hardware Buffer-Overflow Protection

We propose a minimalist, architectural approach, Secure Bit (patent pending), to protect against buffer overflow attacks on control data (return-address and function-pointer attacks in particular). Secure Bit provides a hardware bit to protect the integrity of addresses for the purpose of preventing...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on dependable and secure computing Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 365 - 376
Main Authors:	Piromsopa, K., Enbody, R.J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Washington IEEE 01.10.2006 IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:	Application software Buffer overflow Buffers Computer programs Costs Cybersecurity Data integrity Hardware invasive software Kernel Legacy Linux Metadata Prevention Protection Protocols Robustness Runtime security and protection security kernels Software Software packages Studies UNIX (operating system) Windows (computer programs) United States > US
ISSN:	1545-5971, 1941-0018
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