Close, but No Cigar: On the Effectiveness of Intel's CET Against Code Reuse Attacks

Sun, 12 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0400

Intel's recent announcement of their hardware support for a form of Control Flow Integrity (CFI) has raised a lot of interest among the expert as well as the popular press. As an interested party we've decided to look at some of the details and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET).