Re: [oss-security] PoC: Function Pointer Protection in C Programs

2013-08-22 Thread Stephen Röttger
> Your approach seems to have some slight similarities with -fvtable-verify: > > > Maybe some code sharing could be achieved? Thanks for the hint, this project was actually a big inspiration for my thesis and is part of my related work, alth

Re: [oss-security] PoC: Function Pointer Protection in C Programs

2013-08-21 Thread Hannes Frederic Sowa
Hi! On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 04:43:13PM +0200, Stephen Röttger wrote: > Approach: > The basic idea of the thesis is to record all addresses that are > assigned to a function pointer variable at some place in the program (or > in one of the shared libraries) and if a function pointer is called, > ve