- Dec 16, 2017
- Security
How ASLR Helps Enable Exploits (CVE-2013-2028)
The other day I was playing around with CVE-2013-2028 along with my peer Hong Hu when we came across something odd: CVE-2013-2028 is only exploitable on 64-bit GNU/Linux when ASLR is enabled. After confirming this observation multiple times, we were left very surprised. How could ASLR possibly worsen the …