Security News > 2016 > October > Researchers bypass ASLR by exploiting flaw in Intel chip (Help Net Security)
2016-10-19 22:03
Researchers have found a design flaw in the branch predictor, a component of Intel’s Haswell processor, and have exploited it to bypass ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization). What is ASLR? ASLR is a defense mechanism present in major operating systems and many applications, and protects systems from common attacks such as buffer overflow and return-oriented programming attacks. It does so by randomly arranging the address space positions of key data areas of a process in … More →
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