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Todd Mortimer Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD EuroBSDCon 2018

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SecuritySystems programmingExploits and vulnerabilitiesCompilers and interpretersOperating systems

Todd Mortimer explains compiler-level mitigation strategies used in OpenBSD to systematically reduce the availability of ROP gadgets.

Todd Mortimer gives an excellent presentation on ROP Gadgets, and some of the mitigation strategies he has recently contributed to OpenBSD, this talk colourfully illustrates how ROP Gadgets manifest and how they managed to drastically reduce the number of Gadgets available to Attackers in OpenBSD

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What people say. Recommended as a detailed technical talk on compiler-based mitigations against return-oriented programming in OpenBSD.

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