From our study of C++, it should be clear that, unlike class encapsulation and single inheritance, which were essentially free in C, polymorphism in C involves some complexity and overhead. In the ...

Rust appears to generate LLVM IR for vtable entries unnecessarily, such as for types that never get coerced into a trait object. This realisation came as a result of discussion here. I've also ...

Abstract: The vast majority of nowadays remote code execution attacks target virtual function tables (vtables). Attackers hijack vtable pointers to change the control flow of a vulnerable program to ...

I really tried my best to call vtable ToString method but nothing seems to work, here is the code so far: void Run() { // If you would like to write to a log file, specify the name above and use ...

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I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language (SSPL) group, which explores safe ...

Abstract: Vtable reuse attack, as a novel type of code reuse attacks, is introduced to bypass most binary-level control flow integrity enforcement and vtable integrity enforcement. So far, two ...

As VTable hijacking becomes the primary mode of exploitation against modern browsers, protecting said VTables has recently become a prime research interest. While multiple source- and binary-based ...