How AUTOSLAB Changes the Memory Unsafety Game

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0400

In this guest blog, Zhenpeng Lin details the three-month evaluation he performed of AUTOSLAB during a research internship with Open Source Security, Inc. AUTOSLAB is a compiler-plugin-enhanced feature of grsecurity introduced in 2020 that provides some interesting security and debug properties. The evaluation covers the completeness of AUTOSLAB's approach, how exploitation is changed, and how it affects performance.