US Patent Issued to ALIBABA (CHINA) on May 27 for "Processor and attack detection method thereof for detecting jump-oriented programming attack" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,383, issued on May 27, was assigned to ALIBABA (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Zhejiang Province, China).

"Processor and attack detection method thereof for detecting jump-oriented programming attack" was invented by Shijian Zhang (Beijing) and Lide Duan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a processor and an attack detection method thereof. The processor includes a first register and an execution unit. The execution unit is configured to: execute a first jump-related instruction under a first privilege mode; set a first field of the first register to a first jump status parameter according to executi...