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ICSM
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying the root causes of memory bugs using corrupted memory location suppression
We present a general approach for automatically isolating the root causes of memory-related bugs in software. Our approach is based on the observation that most memory bugs involv...
Dennis Jeffrey, Neelam Gupta, Rajiv Gupta
IWMM
2009
Springer
107views Hardware» more  IWMM 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Self-recovery in server programs
It is important that long running server programs retain availability amidst software failures. However, server programs do fail and one of the important causes of failures in ser...
Vijay Nagarajan, Dennis Jeffrey, Rajiv Gupta
KBSE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Locating faulty code using failure-inducing chops
Software debugging is the process of locating and correcting faulty code. Prior techniques to locate faulty code either use program analysis techniques such as backward dynamic pr...
Neelam Gupta, Haifeng He, Xiangyu Zhang, Rajiv Gup...
CGO
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Practical memory checking with Dr. Memory
—Memory corruption, reading uninitialized memory, using freed memory, and other memory-related errors are among the most difficult programming bugs to identify and fix due to t...
Derek Bruening, Qin Zhao
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
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...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz