Microarchitectural Protection Against Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Attacks

  • Authors:
  • Yong-Joon Park;Zhao Zhang;Gyungho Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Iowa State University;Iowa State University;University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Micro
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Although researchers have proposed several software approaches to preventing buffer overflow attacks, adversaries still extensively exploit this vulnerability. A microarchitecture-based, software-transparent mechanism offers protection against stack-based buffer overflow attacks with moderate hardware cost and negligible performance overhead.