Researcher proposes AI-driven binary control-flow recovery for OS-enforced runtime protection
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-13
Security researcher Joshua Saxe floats a defensive idea and invites expert feedback: leverage AI program analysis for new runtime protections implemented by OS vendors.
- Envision AI breakthroughs lifting the intended control flow graph out of binary programs, enabling shimming programs onto stronger control-flow integrity (CFI) protections.
- If cheap enough, an OS could require every new binary to pass through this reverse-engineering flow before running under improved CFI.
- Generalization: if AI can infer programmer intent in binaries, dynamic behaviors can be more tightly bounded, hopefully obviating whole classes of exploits.
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