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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2017
The University of North Carolina AT Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Albany, NY (US);
Jan Jakub Werner, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kevin Zachary Snow, Cary, NC (US);
Nathan Michael Otterness, Mebane, NC (US);
Robert John Dallara, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Georgios Baltas, Seattle, WA (US);
Fabian Newman Monrose, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Michalis Polychronakis, Long Island City, NY (US);
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, Albany, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for preventing code reuse attacks are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes executing, on a processor, code in a memory page related to an application, wherein the memory page is protected. The method also includes detecting a read request associated with the code. The method further includes after detecting the read request, modifying, without using a hypervisor, at least one memory permission associated with the memory page such that the code is no longer executable after the code is read.