To detect stack buffer overflow with polymorphic canaries

• Main Authors: WANG, Zhilong, DING, Xuhua, PANG, Chengbin, GUO, Jian, ZHU, Jun, MAO, Bing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Brute force attack; Canary; Stack buffer overflow; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4101; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5104/viewcontent/Stack_Buffer_Polymorphic_Canaries_2018_DSN_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Stack Smashing Protection (SSP) is a simple and highly efficient technique widely used in practice as the front line defense against stack buffer overflow attacks. Unfortunately, SSP is known to be vulnerable to the so-called byte-by-byte attack. Although several remedy schemes are proposed in the r...