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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Use-after-free vulnerabilities are rapidly growing in popularity, especially for exploiting web browsers. Use-afterfree (and double-free) vulnerabilities are caused by a program o...
218
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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
To avoid receiving incorrect arguments, a method specifies the expected type of each formal parameter. However, some parameter types are too general and have subtypes that the me...
307
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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to unintended interference between concurrent threads. To address this problem, we argue that yield annotations in the source code sho...
209
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ISSTA
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Identifying and fixing defects is a crucial and expensive part of the software lifecycle. Measuring the quality of bug-fixing patches is a difficult task that affects both func...