After years in development, Intel is set to debut security mechanisms in its microprocessors that it hopes will block, at the silicon level, exploitation of a class of software vulnerabilities.
Known as Control Flow Enforcement Technology, or CET, the protections are designed to prevent miscreants from exploiting certain programming bugs to execute malicious code that infects systems with malware, steals data, spies on victims, and so on. These bugs typically involve tricking programs into corrupting or overwriting their memory with special values pivotal to the attacks.
"These are all insidious types of attacks that have been plaguing the industry for some time," Tom Garrison, Intel's client computing group VP and general manager of security strategies and initiatives, told The Register. "They are nearly impossible to address with software-based mitigation."
The first CET-enabled chips will be members of the upcoming 10nm Tiger Lake line, ..
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