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SOSP
2003
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Model-carrying code: a practical approach for safe execution of untrusted applications
This paper presents a new approach called model-carrying code (MCC) for safe execution of untrusted code. At the heart of MCC is the idea that untrusted code comes equipped with a...
R. Sekar, V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Samik Basu, Sande...
DSN
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
An Architectural Approach to Preventing Code Injection Attacks
Code injection attacks, despite being well researched, continue to be a problem today. Modern architectural solutions such as the NX-bit and PaX have been useful in limiting the a...
Ryan Riley, Xuxian Jiang, Dongyan Xu
ASPLOS
2009
ACM
16 years 11 days ago
ASSURE: automatic software self-healing using rescue points
Software failures in server applications are a significant problem for preserving system availability. We present ASSURE, a system that introduces rescue points that recover softw...
Stelios Sidiroglou, Oren Laadan, Carlos Perez, Nic...
SAC
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Botzilla: detecting the "phoning home" of malicious software
Hosts infected with malicious software, so called malware, are ubiquitous in today’s computer networks. The means whereby malware can infiltrate a network are manifold and rang...
Konrad Rieck, Guido Schwenk, Tobias Limmer, Thorst...
USENIX
2007
15 years 2 months ago
From STEM to SEAD: Speculative Execution for Automated Defense
Most computer defense systems crash the process that they protect as part of their response to an attack. Although recent research explores the feasibility of selfhealing to autom...
Michael E. Locasto, Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. C...