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A mechanism for protecting a procedure's stored return address, such as from a stack buffer overflow.

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Intel CET more secure than AMD Shadow Stack?

I'm trying to decide between AMD or Intel for a new build. I was reading about protection from ROP-attacks and it seems like Intel and AMD are handling this in different ways. AMD Zen 3 and later ...
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How to protect the Shadow Stack?

I found out that many protection mechanisms are used in computer security to ensure control-flow integrity, one of these mechanisms is the Shadow stack: The principal is very easy it ensure the ...
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How can I build a program with shadow stacks?

CLANG has CFI and Microsoft has CFG but is there any readily available way to build a binary with a shadow stack? I would like to try it out but could not find anything.
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