ASLR/DEP/NX protection: How robust are these mechanisms

According to Microsoft, DEP (Data Execution Prevention) and ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) have proven themselves to be important and effective countermeasures against the types of exploits that we see in the wild today.

These are mechanisms specially designed to protect a process and put an end to the exploitation of buffer overflows.

As a reminder, Buffer overflow is a defect that occurs when software writing data in a buffer memory exceeds its capacity, it is mainly the responsibility of …

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