Abstract: Return-oriented programming (ROP) is a code-reuse attack that uses borrowed chunks of executable code for arbitrary computation. On Windows, ROP is often used solely to bypass Data Execution ...

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Abstract: Polymorphism is a foundational concept within the object-oriented paradigm and is a feature of any mainstream object-oriented language that supports reusability and abstraction in software ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Pointers are ubiquitous in modern object-oriented programming languages, and many data structures such as trees, lists, graphs, hash tables, etc. depend on them heavily. Unfortunately, pointers can ...