control flow hijacking
Control flow hijacking refers to a type of cyber attack where malicious actors take control of a program's normal execution by diverting the order in which instructions are executed, potentially allowing them to manipulate its behavior and gain unauthorized access or cause harm.
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Related Concepts (11)
- control hijacking
- format string vulnerability
- non-executable stack protection
- return oriented programming (rop)
- return-oriented exploitation
- return-oriented programming
- reverse engineering techniques for buffer overflows
- rop (return-oriented programming) injection
- rop gadgets
- stack smashing
- use-after-free vulnerabilities
Similar Concepts
- control flow
- control flow integrity
- control flow integrity checking
- control flow obfuscation
- control-flow attack
- control-flow hijacking
- control-flow hijacking and code reuse attacks
- control-flow hijacking detection
- control-flow hijacking mitigations
- control-flow integrity
- control-flow integrity bypass
- control-flow integrity enforcement
- control-flow integrity mitigations
- control-flow integrity protection
- control-flow obfuscation