Return-oriented attacks
nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026
An exploit technique in which the attacker uses control of the call stack to indirectly execute cherry-picked machine instructions immediately prior to the return instruction in subroutines within the existing program code
MWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Return-oriented attackses
- possessive
- Return-oriented attacks's
- pluralpossessive
- Return-oriented attackses'