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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
J. McEnroe Samuel Navaraj, Bangalore, IN;
Rahul C. Kashyap, Foster City, CA (US);
Assignee:
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1466 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); H04L 63/1425 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for protecting against unknown malicious activities by detecting a heap spray attack on a electronic device are disclosed. A script is received at an electronic device from a remote device via a network and a loop operation is detected in the script that contains a write operation operable to write data to a memory of the electronic device. The amount of the data operable to be written to the memory by the write operation is determined and the data is prevented from being written to the memory if the amount of the data is greater than or equal to a threshold.