A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD

Posted Aug 31, 2017 23:04 UTC (Thu) by shemminger (subscriber, #5739)
In reply to: A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD by sorokin
Parent article: A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD

Windows also has a similar (and somewhat richer) set of ROP defenses:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/...(v=vs.85).aspx
Though there are IP issues in using some of this in Linux.

Also, there is some evidence that these are reducing the use of ROP in exploits:
https://www.endgame.com/blog/technical-blog/rop-dying-and...