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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
16 years 4 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
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POPL
2008
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
High-level small-step operational semantics for transactions
Software transactions have received significant attention as a way to simplify shared-memory concurrent programming, but insufficient focus has been given to the precise meaning o...
Katherine F. Moore, Dan Grossman
OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Optimizing the Migration of Virtual Computers
This paper shows how to quickly move the state of a running computer across a network, including the state in its disks, memory, CPU registers, and I/O devices. We call this state...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Ramesh Chandra, Ben Pf...
120
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EUROSYS
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
ConMem: detecting severe concurrency bugs through an effect-oriented approach
Multicore technology is making concurrent programs increasingly pervasive. Unfortunately, it is difficult to deliver reliable concurrent programs, because of the huge and non-det...
Wei Zhang, Chong Sun, Shan Lu