An overview of prevention/mitigation against memory corruption attack

Mahmood, J. K. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2018) An overview of prevention/mitigation against memory corruption attack. In: International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control. Sweden: ISCSIC. (Accepted)

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Abstract:

One of the most prevalent, ancient and devastating vulnerabilities which is increasing rapidly is Memory corruption. It is a vulnerability where a memory location contents of a computer system are altered because of programming errors allowing execution of arbitrary codes. It particularly happens in low-level programming languages such as C, C++ because of their lack of memory safety. Many defense techniques against this kind of attacks have been presented and implemented to prevent it. However, an advanced version of the attack can bypass some of these techniques and harm the system. In this work, we present an overview of the Memory corruption attacks and the existing mitigation techniques for both compilers and operating systems. We hope that this survey will provide sufficient details that can be useful for researchers and system designer.

Additional Information:

Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control (ISCSIC 2018) held in Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2018

Subjects:

Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science > QA76.9.A25 Computer security

Creators:

Mahmood, J. K. and Opoku Agyeman, M.

Publisher:

ISCSIC

Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:

Faculties > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology > Computing

Date:

8 May 2018

Date Type:

Acceptance

Title of Book:

International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control

Event Title:

ISCSIC 2018

Place of Publication:

Sweden

Event Type:

Conference

Language:

English

Status:

Accepted

Refereed:

Yes