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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2020
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Daniel Rose, Salado, TX (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for use in a computing device having a processor, the method comprising: executing a computer program on the processor; while the computer program is running, detecting whether any of a plurality of transition instructions of the computer program is executed, the detecting being performed by using resources that are external to the computer program; in response to detecting that a given one of the transition instructions is executed, detecting whether a current execution flow of the computer program matches a control flow graph for the computer program; and performing a countermeasure action based on one of a mismatch of the current execution flow of the computer program and the control flow graph or a current value of a memory location associated with the computer program; wherein the control flow graph for the computer program is generated by simulating an execution of the computer program.