HardExVTD - Hardware extended defense mechanism against Virtual Table Hijacking attacks

Description

Protecting VTables against hijacking has become primary interest as these attacks become the main method of exploitation against modern browsers. Although several protection solutions have been proposed already, most of them suffer from severe drawbacks. In this thesis we aim to create an improved VTable hijacking mitigation mechanism that offers optimal protection while at the same time reducing the speed overhead. We present our architecture, implementation and benchmark results and finally present our thought about improving this design