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Crashes with consequences: Serial code-reuse attack SFOP breaks Intel CET in Linux

A code-reuse attack named "Segmentation Fault Oriented Programming (SFOP)" exploits weaknesses in signal handling and Intel ...
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Unix: Sending signals to processes

Signals can be sent to processes using the kill command, but this is not the only way that this occurs. When you issue a ^c command to end a foreground process, you are sending a signal 2 (SIGINT) to ...