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Most defense techniques against ROP revolves around randomization, such as ASLR.

If I mark all regions of memory, other than the code segment, non-executable, will this defeat ROP?

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No. Actually, most RoP attacks make use of existing codes (former return-into-libc-attacks). So, the RoP gadgets are snippets of existing code and have to be executable.

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