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CCS
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic placement of authorization hooks in the linux security modules framework
We present a technique for automatic placement of authorization hooks, and apply it to the Linux security modules (LSM) framework. LSM is a generic framework which allows diverse ...
Vinod Ganapathy, Trent Jaeger, Somesh Jha
SP
2002
IEEE
106views Security Privacy» more  SP 2002»
13 years 5 months ago
Using Programmer-Written Compiler Extensions to Catch Security Holes
This paper shows how system-speci c static analysis can nd security errors that violate rules such as \integers from untrusted sources must be sanitized before use" and \do n...
Ken Ashcraft, Dawson R. Engler
CCS
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
MECA: an extensible, expressive system and language for statically checking security properties
This paper describes a system and annotation language, MECA, for checking security rules. MECA is expressive and designed for checking real systems. It provides a variety of pract...
Junfeng Yang, Ted Kremenek, Yichen Xie, Dawson R. ...
ACSAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Soft-Timer Driven Transient Kernel Control Flow Attacks and Defense
A new class of stealthy kernel-level malware, called transient kernel control flow attacks, uses dynamic soft timers to achieve significant work while avoiding any persistent ch...
Jinpeng Wei, Bryan D. Payne, Jonathon Giffin, Calt...
CASES
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Control flow optimization in loops using interval analysis
We present a novel loop transformation technique, particularly well suited for optimizing embedded compilers, where an increase in compilation time is acceptable in exchange for s...
Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Tony Givargis, Alex Nicolau