ROP-Hunt: Detecting Return-Oriented Programming Attacks in Applications

Lu Si, Jie Yu, Lei Luo, Jun Ma, Qingbo Wu, Shasha Li

Abstract: Return-oriented Programming (ROP) is a new exploitation technique that can perform arbitrary unintended operations by constructing a gadget chain reusing existing small code sequences. Although many defense mechanisms have been proposed, some new variants of ROP attack can easily circumvent them.