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PLDI
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
CCured in the real world
CCured is a program transformation system that adds memory safety guarantees to C programs by verifying statically that memory errors cannot occur and by inserting run-time checks...
Jeremy Condit, Matthew Harren, Scott McPeak, Georg...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Hardbound: architectural support for spatial safety of the C programming language
The C programming language is at least as well known for its absence of spatial memory safety guarantees (i.e., lack of bounds checking) as it is for its high performance. C'...
Joe Devietti, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin, S...
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz
OSDI
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...
ICCD
2006
IEEE
97views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Pesticide: Using SMT Processors to Improve Performance of Pointer Bug Detection
Pointer bugs associated with dynamically-allocated objects resulting in out-of-bounds memory access are an important class of software bugs. Because such bugs cannot be detected e...
Jin-Yi Wang, Yen-Shiang Shue, T. N. Vijaykumar, Sa...