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OSDI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Securing Software by Enforcing Data-flow Integrity
Software attacks often subvert the intended data-flow in a vulnerable program. For example, attackers exploit buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities to write data to u...
Manuel Costa, Miguel Castro, Timothy L. Harris
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Randomized active atomicity violation detection in concurrent programs
Atomicity is an important specification that enables programmers to understand atomic blocks of code in a multi-threaded program as if they are sequential. This significantly simp...
Chang-Seo Park, Koushik Sen
CCS
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
EXE: automatically generating inputs of death
This paper presents EXE, an effective bug-finding tool that automatically generates inputs that crash real code. Instead of running code on manually or randomly constructed input,...
Cristian Cadar, Vijay Ganesh, Peter M. Pawlowski, ...
CGO
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
BIRD: Binary Interpretation using Runtime Disassembly
The majority of security vulnerabilities published in the literature are due to software bugs. Many researchers have developed program transformation and analysis techniques to au...
Susanta Nanda, Wei Li, Lap-Chung Lam, Tzi-cker Chi...
SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
ARCHER: using symbolic, path-sensitive analysis to detect memory access errors
Memory corruption errors lead to non-deterministic, elusive crashes. This paper describes ARCHER (ARray CHeckER) a static, effective memory access checker. ARCHER uses path-sensit...
Yichen Xie, Andy Chou, Dawson R. Engler