Protecting Software Against Exploitation with DARPA’s CFAR

Published

2018-09-10 13:00

Collected

2026-07-03 04:30

---
id: 2019
title: "Protecting Software Against Exploitation with DARPA’s CFAR"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/09/10/protecting-software-against-exploitation-with-darpas-cfar/"
published_at: "2018-09-10T13:00:55Z"
tags: ["zero-day", "darpa", "program-analysis", "mitigations", "mcsema", "binary-lifting", "cfar"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/2019"
lang: en
---

# Protecting Software Against Exploitation with DARPA’s CFAR

## Summary

Trail of Bits describes its DARPA CFAR work on automatically protecting software from 0-day exploits and memory corruption, using McSema-based binary lifting and diversification.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2018-09-10T13:00:55Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2018/09/10/protecting-software-against-exploitation-with-darpas-cfar/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/2019