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EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Samurai: protecting critical data in unsafe languages
Programs written in type-unsafe languages such as C and C++ incur costly memory errors that result in corrupted data structures, program crashes, and incorrect results. We present...
Karthik Pattabiraman, Vinod Grover, Benjamin G. Zo...
PLDI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Comprehensively and efficiently protecting the heap
The goal of this paper is to propose a scheme that provides comprehensive security protection for the heap. Heap vulnerabilities are increasingly being exploited for attacks on co...
Mazen Kharbutli, Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Guru ...
CSFW
2011
IEEE
12 years 4 months ago
Modular Protections against Non-control Data Attacks
—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 ...
Cole Schlesinger, Karthik Pattabiraman, Nikhil Swa...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
TAPS: automatically preparing safe SQL queries
We present the first sound program transformation approach for automatically transforming the code of a legacy web application to employ PREPARE statements in place of unsafe SQL...
Prithvi Bisht, A. Prasad Sistla, V. N. Venkatakris...