“Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is one of the most prominently deployed mitigations against memory corruption attacks. ASLR randomly shuffles program virtual addresses to prevent attackers ...

ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) is a memory exploitation mitigation technique used on both Linux and Windows systems. Learn how to tell if it's running, enable/disable it, and get a view of ...

An academic paper demonstrates a new ASLR bypass executed through a side-channel attack against the branch target buffer in an Intel Haswell CPU. Address Space Layout Randomization was a champion ...

Yang Yu’s submission to the Microsoft bug bounty program completely elude ASLR and DEP mitigations built into Windows, earning him $100,000. Yang Yu is no stranger to writing mitigation bypasses for ...

After last week’s pwn2own and pwnium contests, browser security is, once more, a hot topic. The existence of flaws in browsers is nowadays taken for granted: what security researchers are most ...

Microsoft is pushing its new Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) as a temporary mitigation for the ongoing attacks against a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's PDF Reader/Acrobat products.

The latest versions of Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to attacks due to a newly discovered vulnerability in Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR). The vulnerability affects Windows 8, Windows ...

Most popular consumer applications today use Microsoft's Data Execution Prevention (DEP) attack mitigation feature in Windows, while about one-third use its Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) ...

Microsoft provided an explanation this month for an apparent security flaw in Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), a Windows protection scheme. The alleged flaw was described in a vulnerability ...

Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning that video drivers from AMD fail to support a key Windows anti-exploitation mitigation offered by Microsoft. The AMD video drivers ...

ASLR mitigates against attacks using techniques such as return-oriented programming (ROP) that rely on code being found in predictable or discoverable locations in system memory. The security feature ...