Editing Code reuse (section)

===Computer security===
In [[computer security]] code-reuse is employed as a software exploit method.<ref name=Bletsch11>{{Cite book| publisher = North Carolina State University| last = Bletsch| first = Tyler | title = Code-reuse Attacks: New Frontiers and Defenses| date = 2011 |isbn=978-1-124-75297-6 |url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2338075}}</ref>
When an attacker is not able to directly input code to modify the control flow of a program, for example in presence of code injection defenses such as [[W^X]], he or she can redirect the control flow to code sequences existing in memory.

Examples of code-reuse attacks are [[return-to-libc attack]], [[return-oriented programming]], and jump-oriented programming.<ref name=Bletsch11/><ref>{{Cite conference| publisher = ACM| pages = 30–40| last1 = Bletsch| first1 = Tyler| last2 = Jiang| first2 = Xuxian| last3 = Freeh| first3 = Vince W| last4 = Liang| first4 = Zhenkai| title = Jump-oriented programming: a new class of code-reuse attack| book-title = Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security| date = 2011| doi = 10.1145/1966913.1966919| url = https://web.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liangzk/papers/asiaccs11.pdf| isbn = 978-1-4503-0564-8| access-date = 2017-08-07| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170807154310/https://web.comp.nus.edu.sg/~liangzk/papers/asiaccs11.pdf| archive-date = 2017-08-07| url-status = dead}}</ref>