ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,055, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to OPEN TEXT INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Stack pivot exploit detection and mitigation" was invented by Andrew Sandoval (San Antonio).
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 exploits. In aspects, various "checkpoints" may be identified in software code. At each checkpoint, the current stack pointer, stack base, and stack limit for each mode of execution may be obtained. The current stack pointer for each mode of execution may be evaluated to determine whether the stack pointer falls within a stack range ...