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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2018
Applicant:
Mcafee, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Matias Schnidrig, Cordoba, AR;
Assignee:
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/54 (2013.01); G06F 9/44521 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and media for protecting against return-oriented programming malware are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: retrieving an executable module; identifying a basic block in the executable module located at a first memory location, wherein the basic block has one entry point and one exit point; moving a portion of the executable module that corresponds to the basic block to a random memory location from the first memory location; and replacing a destination of a function call to the basic block within the executable module with a representation of the random memory location.