I would like to add that there are starting to be mitigations against attacks modifying control flow, for example CFguard under Windows (which will probably be

I would like to add that there are starting to be mitigations against attacks modifying control flow, for example CFguard under Windows (which will probably be extended to cover ROP also) but like DEP an ASLR those are only mitigations, not something that would make it useless to care about buffer overflow anymore.