An Overview of Prevention/Mitigation against Memory Corruption Attack

Jasim Khalsan, M. and Opoku Agyeman, M. (2018) An Overview of Prevention/Mitigation against Memory Corruption Attack. In: ISCSIC '18: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control :. SWE: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). pp. 1-6.

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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.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Memory Corruption, Vulnerabilities, Attacks, Technique to prevent hacking
Creators:	Jasim Khalsan, Mahmood and Opoku Agyeman, Michael
Publisher:	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology > Computing
Date:	21 September 2018
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 1-6
Title of Book:	ISCSIC '18: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control :
Event Title:	2nd International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control
Event Dates:	2018-09-21 - 2018-09-23
Place of Publication:	SWE
Number of Pages:	6
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-1-4503-6628-1
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1145/3284557.3284564
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/13420

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