Fall 2010

Paper Reading Questions

Please remember to print your answer for each day's paper question on a sheet of paper and hand it in at the beginning of class.

Suppose a program has a buffer overflow vulnerability which allows an attacker to overwrite a function pointer on the stack (which is invoked shortly after the buffer is overflowed). Explain whether or not an attacker is able to exploit the vulnerability if the same program is run under XFI.

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