Address Space Layout Randomization, an exploit mitigation technique which randomizes the in-memory layout of executables, is a feature lacking in FreeBSD that people have been asking for for a number of years. Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb have come up with an innovative implementation of ASLR for FreeBSD. This presentation gives an introduction and a live demo of our ASLR implementation.

Speaker biography:

Brief CV of Shawn Webb: Current employee of Cisco Systems, Inc. I work on ClamAV full-time. I created libhijack, a library to make runtime process infection extremely simple on Linux and FreeBSD. Maintainer of a number of FreeBSD ports

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