Security Vulnerability Mitigations

Security vulnerabilities allow software to be manipulated in such a way that it misbehaves to the benefit of an attacker - security vulnerability mitigations work to thwart attempts to successfully exploit such a vulnerability. This landscape is continually changing in both the types of attacks and the required mitigations. While the last decade saw buffer overflows as a primary source of attacks, Return Oriented Programming (ROP) and Blind Return Oriented Programming (BROP) attacks pose new threats. Ove