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FAST
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2008
IEEE
The Linux kernel stack has a fixed size. There is no mechanism to prevent the kernel from overflowing the stack. Hackers can exploit this bug to put unwanted information in the me...
USENIX
2004
13 years 8 months ago
2004
The prevention of damage caused to a system via malicious executables is a significant issue in the current state of security on Linux operating systems. Several approaches are av...
DAC
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2011
ACM
We present ChronOS Linux, a best-effort real-time Linux kernel for chip multiprocessors (CMPs). ChronOS addresses the intersection of three problem spaces: a) OS-support for obta...
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
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...