WATSON delivers efficient shadow stack protection for embedded and IoT systems by configuring data watchpoints to enforce write protection on the shadow stack, achieving 7.33% overhead on BEEBS and 1.81% on CoreMark-Pro while handling interrupts and exceptions.
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WATSON: Leveraging Data Watchpoints for Shadow Stack Protection on Embedded Systems
WATSON delivers efficient shadow stack protection for embedded and IoT systems by configuring data watchpoints to enforce write protection on the shadow stack, achieving 7.33% overhead on BEEBS and 1.81% on CoreMark-Pro while handling interrupts and exceptions.