ARM Pointer Authentication [2017]

by sacheendra on 8/30/2022, 2:51:00 PM with 14 comments

  • by alain94040 on 8/30/2022, 3:32:03 PM

    Protection was partially hacked with: https://pacmanattack.com

  • by wyager on 8/30/2022, 3:37:06 PM

    PAC has been a total pain in the ass for iOS exploit devs. Seems to be working pretty well there.

  • by dmytrish on 8/30/2022, 3:42:34 PM

    Please add [2017]

  • by mike_hock on 8/30/2022, 8:15:00 PM

    Why just use separate stacks for code and data if you can engineer a more complicated solution with higher overhead?

  • by conradev on 8/30/2022, 6:01:38 PM

    > For the time being, the feature is only provided for user space; it is not yet used within the kernel itself

    Does anyone know if that is still the case?