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PLDI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Samurai: protecting critical data in unsafe languages
Programs written in type-unsafe languages such as C and C++ incur costly memory errors that result in corrupted data structures, program crashes, and incorrect results. We present...
Karthik Pattabiraman, Vinod Grover, Benjamin G. Zo...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
248views Hardware» more  ISCA 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Watchdog: Hardware for safe and secure manual memory management and full memory safety
Languages such as C and C++ use unsafe manual memory management, allowing simple bugs (i.e., accesses to an object after deallocation) to become the root cause of exploitable secu...
Santosh Nagarakatte, Milo M. K. Martin, Steve Zdan...
HIPC
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Thread Migration/Checkpointing for Type-Unsafe C Programs
Thread migration/checkpointing is becoming indispensable for load balancing and fault tolerance in high performance computing applications, and its success depends on the migration...
Hai Jiang, Vipin Chaudhary
DATE
2009
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  DATE 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Architectural support for low overhead detection of memory violations
Violations in memory references cause tremendous loss of productivity, catastrophic mission failures, loss of privacy and security, and much more. Software mechanisms to detect me...
Saugata Ghose, Latoya Gilgeous, Polina Dudnik, Ane...