Security researcher cracks Microsoft’s BlueHat prize-winning ROPGuard tool

A security researcher has admitted that he has managed to crack the ROPGuard tool that won second prize at the recent Microsoft BlueHat contest.

According to Arstechnica, security researcher Shahriyar Jalayeri has demonstrated an exploit that bypasses the tool’s protection. According to a blog, Jalayeri said that he managed to bypass EMET 3.5 and wrote a full-functioning exploit for CVE-2011-1260 with all Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit’s (EMET) ROP mitigation enabled.