Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Many of the bugs in distributed software modules are security vulnerabilities, the most common and also the most exploited of which are buffer overflows and they typically arise in...
Incomplete or improper input validation is one of the major sources of security bugs in programs. While traditional approaches often focus on detecting string related buffer overfl...
Ebrima N. Ceesay, Jingmin Zhou, Michael Gertz, Kar...
Buffer overflow detection using static analysis can provide a powerful tool for software ers to find difficult bugs in C programs. Sound static analysis based on abstract interpre...
Youil Kim, Jooyong Lee, Hwansoo Han, Kwang-Moo Cho...
—This paper introduces YARRA, a conservative extension to C to protect applications from non-control data attacks. YARRA programmers specify their data integrity requirements by ...