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Explore a groundbreaking mitigation technique called CastGuard in this 40-minute Black Hat conference talk. Discover how a small instruction sequence, combined with an object's virtual function table pointer, can effectively prevent illegal static down-casts in C++ code. Learn about the implementation of CastGuard in Windows components and its potential for wider deployment. Gain insights into enhancing C++ code security and mitigating type confusion vulnerabilities from speaker Joe Bialek.
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CastGuard: Mitigating Type Confusion in C++
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