articleOct 28, 2007Closed access

The geometry of innocent flesh on the bone

HSHovav Shacham

University of California, San Diego

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Abstract

We present new techniques that allow a return-into-libc attack to be mounted on x86 executables that calls no functions at all. Our attack combines a large number of short instruction sequences to build gadgets that allow arbitrary computation. We show how to discover such instruction sequences by means of static analysis. We make use, in an essential way, of the properties of the x86 instruction set.

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  • x86
  • Executable
  • Computer science
  • Computation
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • Theoretical computer science
  • Algorithm
  • Programming language
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