High cyclic-di-GMP levels promote ________________ and inhib…
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High cyclic-di-GMP levels prоmоte ________________ аnd inhibit _____________________
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SFI Suppоse yоur prоgrаm uses а third-pаrty library that may contain vulnerabilities. You do not know how to find or fix those vulnerabilities, so instead you want to contain the damage that the library can cause. In class, we discussed Software-Based Fault Isolation (SFI) as a way to restrict the behavior of untrusted code. Assume a 64-bit system. Your goal is to instrument the library so that: its memory reads and writes can only access the lower 64 GB of the address space, and its indirect control-flow transfers cannot jump to arbitrary instruction addresses. Answer the following: (a) Restricting memory accesses (6 points) Assume the target memory address of a load or store is held in register %rax. Explain how to use a bitwise "and" instruction to ensure that the address in %rax is always confined to the lower 64 GB of memory before the memory access occurs. Your answer should give the mask value that should be used, and explain why it works. (b) Why memory masking alone is insufficient (3 points) Explain why restricting only memory read/write addresses is not sufficient in the presence of a control-flow hijacking attack. In particular, explain how an attacker might bypass the inserted masking instructions. (c) Restricting indirect jumps (6 points) To prevent masking instructions from being bypassed, you now also want to constrain indirect jumps. In particular, for an instruction such as: jmp *%rax you want to ensure that the jump target is always 16-byte aligned; that is, it can only jump to addresses such as 0, 16, 32, 48, and so on. Explain how to use a bitwise and instruction to enforce this property. Your answer should give the mask value that should be used, and explain why it ensures 16-byte alignment.