Mitigating malicious exploitation of a vulnerability in a software application by selectively trapping execution along a code path

A computer system comprising:

• a processor;
• a system memory coupled to said processor;
• one or more probe points within said system memory;
• means for inserting said one or more probe points into a code path of an application to mark one or more locations at which one or more coding errors exist within the code path;
• means for monitoring execution of said code path;
• and
• means for selectively performing one of a plurality of corrective actions when said execution reaches a probe point in said code path.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable medium;
• and
• program code on said computer readable medium that when executed provides the functions of:
• inserting one or more probe points into a code path of an application to mark one or more locations at which one or more coding errors exist within the code path, wherein said one or more probe points are software interrupts, and said inserting of the one or more probe points comprises completing an insertion of the one or more code points into an original compiled code base of the application, without modifying the original compiled code base;
• monitoring execution of said code path;
• and
• selectively performing one of a plurality of corrective actions when said execution reaches a probe point in said code path.