Good code, bad computations: A computer security gray area

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Sun, 10/26/2008 - 22:00

(University of California - San Diego) If you want to make sure your computer or server is not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's not enough to keep bad code out of the system.

Two graduate students from UC San Diego's computer science department have just published work showing that the process of building bad programs from good code using "return-oriented programming" can be automated and that this vulnerability applies to multiple computer architectures.

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