Code-reuse attacks represent the state-of-the-art in exploiting memory safety vulnerabilities. Control-flow integrity techniques offer a promising direction for preventing codereuse attacks, but these attacks are resilient against imprecise and heuristic-based detection and prevention mechanisms.In this work, we propose a new context-sensitive controlflow integrity system (Hurdle) that guarantees pairwise gadgets cannot be chained in a code-reuse attack. Hurdle improves upon prior techniques by using SMT constraint solving to ensure that indirect control flow transfers cannot be maliciously redirected to execute gadget chains. At the same time, Hurdle's security policy is flexible enough that benign executions are only rarely mischaracterized as malicious. When such mischaracterizations occur, Hurdle can generalize its constraint solving to avoid these mischaracterizations at low marginal cost.We propose architecture extensions for Hurdle which consist of an extended branch history register and new instructions. Thanks to its hardware support, Hurdle enforces a context-sensitive control-flow integrity policy with 1.02% average runtime overhead.• Security and privacy → Hardware security implementation; Malware and its mitigation.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
customersupport@researchsolutions.com
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.