On 05/23/2016 08:50 PM, Roy Leblanc wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does GCC's code generator at this point provide protection against ROP and
> JOP attacks? This can be achieved by carefully controlling what opcode bytes
> and immediate values are produced. It can also be achieved by rewriting
> assembler output as you see with the AntiJOP project.
>
> More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming
>
> -Roy
>
IIUC, this is still work in progress. Some initial support is available in GCC
6.1: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-11/msg01773.html
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Regards,
Mikhail Maltsev
