Language run-time systems are often called upon to safely execute mutually distrustful tasks within the same runtime, protecting them from other tasks’ bugs or otherwise hostile...
Software vulnerabilities have been the main contributing factor to the Internet security problems such as fast spreading worms. Among these software vulnerabilities, memory corrup...
Code injection vulnerabilities continue to prevail. Attacks of this kind such as stack buffer overflows and heap buffer overflows account for roughly half of the vulnerabilities...
Stig Andersson, Andrew Clark, George M. Mohay, Bra...
Parameters of a program’s runtime environment such as the machine architecture and operating system largely determine whether a vulnerability can be exploited. For example, the m...
Tribal Ownership unifies class nesting and object ownership. Tribal Ownership is based on Tribe, a language with nested classes and object families. In Tribal Ownership, a progra...