On Protection by Layout Randomization

  • Authors:
  • Martín Abadi;Gordon D. Plotkin

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley;Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Layout randomization is a powerful, popular technique for software protection. We present it and study it in programming-language terms. More specifically, we consider layout randomization as part of an implementation for a high-level programming language; the implementation translates this language to a lower-level language in which memory addresses are numbers. We analyze this implementation, by relating low-level attacks against the implementation to contexts in the high-level programming language, and by establishing full abstraction results.