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, Jasim Khalsan and Opoku Agyeman, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-3734-4451
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
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10368

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