Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been known for a long time, are widespread and relevant today. To protect against buffer overflows, developers of operating systems usually use standard mechanisms ...

Dijon is a language that I initially came up with in 2013. The original design goal was to create a language with a unique way to handle control flow; in fact, the original vision was to attempt to ...

Polyspace Stack Flow Viewer is a Perl script showing the stack usage of a C or C++ program throughout the call tree of this program. It can be then used to help developers identify potential stack ...

Kernel-mode Hardware-enforced Stack Protection is a security feature introduced in Windows 11 22H2 that protects systems from various memory attacks, such as stack buffer overflows.

Learn how to design and implement TCP flow and congestion control mechanisms in your applications or systems using the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP).

That defence was effective enough to push attackers to use ROP, so the next step was trying to protect the flow of control within the program. Control flow integrity arrived in Windows 8.1 as ...

Intel today announced a new CPU-level security capability known as Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (Intel CET) that offers protection against malware using control-flow hijacking attack ...