ACSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2009
IEEE
The UNIX operating system was developed in a friendly, collaborative environment without any particular predefined objectives. As it entered less friendly environments, expanded it...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACM
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be...
ICDCIT
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
We discuss research issues and models for vulnerabilities and threats in distributed computing systems. We present four diverse approaches to reducing system vulnerabilities and th...
ICICS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Modeling and analysis of information system vulnerabilities helps us to predict possible attacks to networks using the network configuration and vulnerabilities information. As a f...
CCS
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Vulnerabilities that allow worms to hijack the control flow of each host that they spread to are typically discovered months before the worm outbreak, but are also typically disc...
ISSRE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Evaluation of computing system security requires knowledge of the vulnerabilities present in the system and of potential attacks against the system. Vulnerabilities can be classif...
SP
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
The number and the importance of Web applications have increased rapidly over the last years. At the same time, the quantity and impact of security vulnerabilities in such applica...
DASC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
We examine the feasibility of quantitatively characterizing the vulnerabilities in the two major HTTP servers. In particular, we investigate the applicability of quantitative empi...
PAISI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Vulnerabilities in network protocol software have been problematic since Internet infrastructure was deployed. These vulnerabilities damage the reliability of network software and ...
CCS
2007
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2007
ACM
Where do most vulnerabilities occur in software? Our Vulture tool automatically mines existing vulnerability databases and version archives to map past vulnerabilities to componen...