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...
The JavaTM programming language does not allow the programmer to influence memory management. An object is usually allocated on the heap and deallocated by the garbage collector ...
Parameters of a program’s runtime environment such as the machine architecture and operating system largely determine whether a vulnerability can be exploited. For example, the m...
The standard pipeline approach to semantic processing, in which sentences are morphologically and syntactically resolved to a single tree before they are interpreted, is a poor fi...
We present a new run-time system for typed programming languages that supports object sharing in a distributed system. The key insight in this system is that the ability to distin...
Y. Charlie Hu, Weimin Yu, Alan L. Cox, Dan S. Wall...