How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI?

from blog Laurence Tratt: Blog, | ↗ original
CHERI is a set of things (adapted CPUs, adapted operating systems, adapted libraries) that, collectively, aim to stop software bugs becoming security flaws. If you’d like to know more, I gave some of my thinking on CHERI in CHERI is a set of things (adapted CPUs, adapted operating systems, adapted libraries) that, collectively, aim to stop software bugs becoming security flaws. If you’d like to know more, I gave some of my thinking on CHERI in Two Stories for “What is CHERI?”Two Stories for “What is CHERI?”.. In this post I’m going to flesh out an observation I made in that post, which is that some software needs thoughtful...In this post I’m going to flesh out an observation I made in that post, which is that some software needs thoughtful...