Questions tagged [cfi]
A term for computer security techniques which prevent a wide variety of malware attacks from redirecting the flow of execution of a program
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How to protect the Shadow Stack?
I found out that many protection mechanisms are used in computer security to ensure control-flow integrity, one of these mechanisms is the Shadow stack:
The principal is very easy it ensure the ...
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Why do we need security measure likes control flow integrity and buffer overflow guard if we have good access control protocol in place?
Reading into information security, I noticed two branches. Access control when communication with external device by using some type of cryptographic authentication and encryption mechanism and things ...
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Are code-pointer separation (CPS) and code-pointer integrity (CPI) about programming or compilers?
In computer security and control-flow integrity (CFI) there are two terms: code-pointer separation (CPS) and code-pointer integrity (CPI), defined as follows:
Code-Pointer Integrity (CPI) is a ...
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How can I build a program with shadow stacks?
CLANG has CFI and Microsoft has CFG but is there any readily available way to build a binary with a shadow stack? I would like to try it out but could not find anything.
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