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Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks — HN submission

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:35:45 GMT

Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks

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Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks — HN submission

Mon, 04 May 2020 19:57:07 GMT

Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks

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Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks — mentioned by kdbg

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:49:20 GMT

While I didn't have high hopes to get a summary of a technical paper, since I spend a good chunk of time every week reading some related to exploits and mitigations for a podcast I host, I hoped this might help reduce time spent trying to get an overall understanding before diving into the details. It actually did better than I expected with the paper "Bypassing memory safety mechanisms through speculative control flow hijacks" [0] I copied and pasted the text from sections 3-7 (Case Studies - Conclusion) and Section 2 on its own (describes the attack) It did pull out some important…

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