Light-weight hardware return address and stack frame tracking to prevent function return address attack

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 859-866

  Kao, Wen Fu ^a   Wu, S Felix ^a  

^a Davis   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; HARDWARE SOLUTIONS; LIGHT WEIGHT; SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS; SECURITY FEATURES; SOFTWARE PROTECTION; TRACKING METHOD;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HARDWARE; HEURISTIC METHODS; NETWORK SECURITY;

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EID: 70749153890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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