SafeStack+: Enhanced dual stack to combat data-flow hijacking

• Main Authors: LIN, Yan, TANG, Xiaoxiao, GAO, Debin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Buffer overflow; Data flow; Control flow; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3746; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4748/viewcontent/101007_2F978_3_319_59870_3_6.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

SafeStack, initially proposed as a key component of Code Pointer Integrity (CPI), separates the program stack into two distinct regions to provide a safe region for sensitive code pointers. SafeStack can prevent buffer overflow attacks that overwrite sensitive code pointers, e.g., return addresses,...