Although researchers have proposed several software approaches to preventing buffer overflow attacks, adversaries still extensively exploit this vulnerability. A microarchitecture-based, software-transparent mechanism offers protection against stack-based buffer overflow attacks with moderate hardware cost and negligible performance overhead.
Index Terms:
Microarchitectural protection, buffer overflow, stack-based, RAS
Citation:
Yong-Joon Park, Zhao Zhang, Gyungho Lee, "Microarchitectural Protection Against Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Attacks," IEEE Micro, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 62-71, July/Aug. 2006, doi:10.1109/MM.2006.76