Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Using a fine-grained address space layout randomization to mitigate potential security exploits
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Application No.: US14503212Application Date: 2014-09-30
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Publication No.: US10311228B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Jacques A. Vidrine , Nicholas C. Allegra , Simon P. Cooper , Gregory D. Hughes
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/52
- IPC: G06F21/52 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
A data processing system can use a method of fine-grained address space layout randomization to mitigate the system's vulnerability to return oriented programming security exploits. The randomization can occur at the sub-segment level by randomizing clumps of virtual memory pages. The randomized virtual memory can be presented to processes executing on the system. The mapping between memory spaces can be obfuscated using several obfuscation techniques to prevent the reverse engineering of the shuffled virtual memory mapping.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160092675A1 FINE-GRAINED ADDRESS SPACE LAYOUT RANDOMIZATION Public/Granted day:2016-03-31
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