Security News > 2017 > November > Windows 10 Security Feature Broken, US-CERT Warns
2017-11-21 13:03
Entropy Alert: Non-Random ASLR Leaves Systems Open To Buffer Overflow AttacksRecent versions of Windows have a security problem: They're not random enough, US-CERT warns. The problem centers on certain uses of ASLR, which is designed to block return-oriented programming techniques and code reuse attacks.
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