V-207504

Discussion

Some adversaries launch attacks with the intent of executing code in non-executable regions of memory or in memory locations that are prohibited. Data execution prevention safeguards can either be hardware-enforced or software-enforced with hardware providing the greater strength of mechanism. Examples of attacks are buffer overflow attacks.

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Verify the VMM implements address space layout randomization to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.

If it does not, this is a finding.