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CCR
2004
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15 years 3 months ago
Preventing Internet denial-of-service with capabilities
In this paper, we propose a new approach to preventing and constraining denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Instead of being able to send anything to anyone at any time, in our archi...
Thomas E. Anderson, Timothy Roscoe, David Wetheral...
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EUROSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 20 days ago
Practical taint-based protection using demand emulation
Many software attacks are based on injecting malicious code into a target host. This paper demonstrates the use of a wellknown technique, data tainting, to track data received fro...
Alex Ho, Michael A. Fetterman, Christopher Clark, ...
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CISIS
2008
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Multi-variant Program Execution: Using Multi-core Systems to Defuse Buffer-Overflow Vulnerabilities
While memory-safe and type-safe languages have been available for many years, the vast majority of software is still implemented in type-unsafe languages such as C/C++. Despite ma...
Babak Salamat, Andreas Gal, Todd Jackson, Karthike...
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ACSAC
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Analyzing and improving Linux kernel memory protection: a model checking approach
Code injection continues to pose a serious threat to computer systems. Among existing solutions, W X is a notable approach to prevent the execution of injected code. In this paper...
Siarhei Liakh, Michael C. Grace, Xuxian Jiang
IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Defeating Dynamic Data Kernel Rootkit Attacks via VMM-Based Guest-Transparent Monitoring
—Targeting the operating system kernel, the core of trust in a system, kernel rootkits are able to compromise the entire system, placing it under malicious control, while eluding...
Junghwan Rhee, Ryan Riley, Dongyan Xu, Xuxian Jian...