A Faster Path to Memory Safety: CHERI, Memory Tagging, and Control Flow Integrity

Recently, the White House published a technical paper asking organizations to develop roadmaps for implementing memory safety in their software applications. The goal is to eliminate a broad class of software defects that make up to 70 percent of all vulnerabilities, according to researchers at Microsoft and Google. 

Most often when the topic of memory safety comes up people think about memory-safe programming languages like Rust and Swift. But rewriting applications in a new programming language will be an …

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