Five modern static analysis tools (ARCHER, BOON, PolySpace C Verifier, Splint, and UNO) were evaluated using source code examples containing 14 exploitable buffer overflow vulnera...
Abstract. Code injection attacks that target the control-data of an application have been prevalent amongst exploit writers for over 20 years. Today however, these attacks are gett...
Steven Van Acker, Nick Nikiforakis, Pieter Philipp...
Memory managers are an important part of any modern language: they are used to dynamically allocate memory for use in the program. Many managers exist and depending on the operati...
Yves Younan, Wouter Joosen, Frank Piessens, Hans V...
Many of the bugs in distributed software modules are security vulnerabilities, the most common and also the most exploited of which are buffer overflows and they typically arise in...
Buffer overflow exploits make use of the treatment of strings in C as character arrays rather than as first-class objects. Manipulation of arrays as pointers and primitive pointer...