Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fine-grained memory address space layout randomization
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Application No.: US16409654Application Date: 2019-05-10
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Publication No.: US11188638B2Publication Date: 2021-11-30
- Inventor: Jacques A. Vidrine , Nicholas C. Allegra , Simon P. Cooper , Gregory D. Hughes
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/52
- IPC: G06F21/52 ; G06F12/02

Abstract:
A data processing system can use a method of fine-grained address space layout randomization to mitigate the system's vulnerability to return oriented programming security exploits. The randomization can occur at the sub-segment level by randomizing clumps of virtual memory pages. The randomized virtual memory can be presented to processes executing on the system. The mapping between memory spaces can be obfuscated using several obfuscation techniques to prevent the reverse engineering of the shuffled virtual memory mapping.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200034527A1 FINE-GRAINED ADDRESS SPACE LAYOUT RANDOMIZATION Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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