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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Mcafee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ravi Sahita, Portland, OR (US);
Lu Deng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Austin, TX (US);
Lixin Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander Shepsen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Igor Tatourian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
McAfee, LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to identify regions of code to be monitored, probe and lock code pages that include the identified regions of code, and remap the code pages as execute only to assist with the mitigation of malicious invocation of sensitive code. The code pages can be remapped as execute only in an alternate extended page table view to allow for the detection and mitigation of malicious invocation of sensitive code.