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Abstract

A stack override prevention method provides protection against a computer attack that utilizes the technique of stack override to gain control of a computer system. The method of the protection is to permit the stack to be executable but to add functionality that blocks the possibility of passing control via stack override to code inserted into the stack by means of the exploit program. This method includes relocating the entire stack to a random memory location in memory and subsequently erasing the old stack area. By moving the entire stack associated with a process to a random location, the attacker cannot predict the address in which potentially all permitting code resides and thus cannot put the correct value in the location of the return address within the stack frame. The invention is applicable to operating systems which use the stack as means for passing control to and returning from functions and in which the stack is executable.

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