CFI

By admin, 22 July, 2024

FreeBSD incorporates several security mechanisms to protect against buffer overflow attacks. These mechanisms include:

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR)

ASLR randomizes the memory addresses used by system and application processes. By doing so, it makes it more difficult for an attacker to predict the location of specific functions, system libraries, and buffers, thereby thwarting many types of buffer overflow attacks.