US Patent Issued to OPEN TEXT on Dec. 23 for "Detecting stack pivots using stack artifact verification" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,204, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Detecting stack pivots using stack artifact verification" was invented by Ira Strawser (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for detecting and mitigating stack pivoting using stack artifact verification. In aspects, function hooks may be added to one or more functions. When a hooked function executes, artifacts relating to the hooked function may be left on the stack memory ("stack"). The location of the artifacts on the stack may be stored in a local storage area. Each time a hook in...