ROPecker: A Generic and Practical Approach For Defending Against ROP Attack

• Main Authors: CHENG, Yueqiang, ZHOU, Zongwei, MIAO, Yu, DING, Xuhua, DENG, Robert H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1973; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2972/viewcontent/ROPecker02_1_1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) is a sophisticated exploitation technique that is able to drive target applications to perform arbitrary unintended operations by constructing a gadget chain reusing existing small code sequences (gadgets). Existing defense mechanisms either only handle specific typ...