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ACNS
2008
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
On the Effectiveness of Internal Patching Against File-Sharing Worms
File-sharing worms have been terrorizing Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems in recent years. Existing defenses relying on users’ individual recoveries or limiting users’ file-sharing ...
Liang Xie, Hui Song, Sencun Zhu
SP
2006
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Towards Automatic Generation of Vulnerability-Based Signatures
In this paper we explore the problem of creating vulnerability signatures. A vulnerability signature matches all exploits of a given vulnerability, even polymorphic or metamorphic...
David Brumley, James Newsome, Dawn Xiaodong Song, ...
CCS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Memsherlock: an automated debugger for unknown memory corruption vulnerabilities
Software vulnerabilities have been the main contributing factor to the Internet security problems such as fast spreading worms. Among these software vulnerabilities, memory corrup...
Emre Can Sezer, Peng Ning, Chongkyung Kil, Jun Xu
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Residue objects: a challenge to web browser security
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be...
Shuo Chen, Hong Chen, Manuel Caballero
ICST
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Seasonal Variation in the Vulnerability Discovery Process
Vulnerability discovery rates need to be taken into account for evaluating security risks. Accurate projection of these rates is required to estimate the effort needed to develop ...
HyunChul Joh, Yashwant K. Malaiya