In an effort to make your iPhone more secure, security analyst and jailbreak developer Stefan Esser is releasing Antid0te on December 14th. Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a security technique which involves randomly arranging the positions of key data areas. This usually includes rearranging the base of the executable and position of libraries, heap, and stack, in a process’ address space. This makes it difficult for someone trying to execute shellcode injection on the stack by requiring them to have to first find the stack. Many of the most popular and sophisticated Operating Systems already use ASLR, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX (10.5+).
Just how secure is your iPhone? Earlier this year at the Pwn2own hacking competition the winners of the event, Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann, took home first place for hacking an iPhone 3GS and downloading all its stored SMS messages in only […]
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