Buffer overflows have been the most common form of security vulnerability in the past decade. A number of techniques have been proposed to address such attacks. Some are limited t...
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 vulnerabilities are caused by programming errors that allow an attacker to cause the program to write beyond the bounds of an allocated memory block to corrupt oth...
Martin C. Rinard, Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dumitran,...
We examine the problem of containing buffer overflow attacks in a safe and efficient manner. Briefly, we automatically augment source code to dynamically catch stack and heap-based...