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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Koichi Yamada, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Palanivelra Shanmugavelayutham, San Jose, CA (US);
Arvind Krishnaswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason M. Agron, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiwei Lu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to detect a return-oriented programming (ROP) attack by verifying target addresses of branch instructions during execution. An apparatus includes a processor component, and a comparison component for execution by the processor component to determine whether there is a matching valid target address for a target address of a branch instruction associated with a translated portion of a routine in a table comprising valid target addresses. Other embodiments are described and claimed.