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KBSE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Practical taint-based protection using demand emulation
Many software attacks are based on injecting malicious code into a target host. This paper demonstrates the use of a wellknown technique, data tainting, to track data received fro...
Alex Ho, Michael A. Fetterman, Christopher Clark, ...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
FlexiTaint: A programmable accelerator for dynamic taint propagation
This paper presents FlexiTaint, a hardware accelerator for dynamic taint propagation. FlexiTaint is implemented as an in-order addition to the back-end of the processor pipeline, ...
Guru Venkataramani, Ioannis Doudalis, Yan Solihin,...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Dynamic multi-process information flow tracking for web application security
Although there is a large body of research on detection and prevention of such memory corruption attacks as buffer overflow, integer overflow, and format string attacks, the web...
Susanta Nanda, Lap-Chung Lam, Tzi-cker Chiueh