A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD

Posted Aug 31, 2017 12:00 UTC (Thu) by sorokin (guest, #88478)
In reply to: A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD by mjthayer
Parent article: A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD

This still allows overwriting of the return address of the caller of the current function.

Posted Aug 31, 2017 12:07 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

> This still allows overwriting of the return address of the caller of the current function.

Yes, I realise that. It is at least harder though as you have to avoid overwriting your own in the process.