[ACM Press the 1st EuroSys Workshop - Nu
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Gadaleta, Francesco; Younan, Yves; Jacobs, Bart; Joosen, Wouter; De Neve, Erik;
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Article
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2009
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ACM Press
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In this paper, we examine the possibility of using virtualization to implement a countermeasure that protects against buffer overflow attacks. The countermeasure works by adding a few extra instructions to the architecture that are emulated by the hypervisor. After running performance benchmarks, a