Tag-Protector: An Effective and Dynamic Detection of Illegal Memory Accesses through Compile Time Code Instrumentation

Table 2

Comprehensive comparison with existing publicly available countermeasures when tested on Ubuntu 12.4 64-bit architecture.

Technique used	Buffer overow location					Dangling pointer detection	Detection rate for RIPE [47]
	Stack	Heap	Data segment	Bss segment	Structs^2
gcc compiled no protection							0%
LibSafe [36]							7%
StackShield [38]							36%
ProPolice [37]							40%
LibsafePlus + TIED [39, 40]							70%
CRED [9]							60%
SoftBound [20]							36.26%
SAFECode [10]							68.89%
AddressSanitizer [35]							85.5%
Proposed Tag-Protector							100%