System and method for prevention of buffer overflow intrusions

System and method for prevention of buffer overflow intrusions

Disclosed as a system and method for providing enhanced security to processes running on a data processing system. The disclosed system and method selectively revokes execute privileges from memory pages being used for stacks of susceptible processes running on the data processing system. By selecti...

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1. Verfasser: ABRAMS ROGER KENNETH
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
ALARM SYSTEMS
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ORDER TELEGRAPHS
PHYSICS
SIGNALLING
SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed as a system and method for providing enhanced security to processes running on a data processing system. The disclosed system and method selectively revokes execute privileges from memory pages being used for stacks of susceptible processes running on the data processing system. By selectively resetting execute privileges on a per page and per process basis, the system and method maintains system performance and provides enhanced security to processes running on the data processing system.