grsecurityWhat are code reuse attacks? Why have they resisted defenses up to now? To explain this story fully, we need some historical context. Since the late 1990s, exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities had largely used what's generally called "shellcode" to achieve complete control over a compromised application. In 2000 with the release of PAGEEXEC and MPROTECT by the PaX Team, the use of she
