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x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection

Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow…

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