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GECCO
2006
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
On evolving buffer overflow attacks using genetic programming
In this work, we employed genetic programming to evolve a "white hat" attacker; that is to say, we evolve variants of an attack with the objective of providing better de...
Hilmi Günes Kayacik, Malcolm I. Heywood, A. N...
CISIS
2008
IEEE
14 years 26 days ago
Multi-variant Program Execution: Using Multi-core Systems to Defuse Buffer-Overflow Vulnerabilities
While memory-safe and type-safe languages have been available for many years, the vast majority of software is still implemented in type-unsafe languages such as C/C++. Despite ma...
Babak Salamat, Andreas Gal, Todd Jackson, Karthike...
ACSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Evolving Successful Stack Overflow Attacks for Vulnerability Testing
The work presented in this paper is intended to test crucial system services against stack overflow vulnerabilities. The focus of the test is the user-accessible variables, that i...
Hilmi Günes Kayacik, A. Nur Zincir-Heywood, M...
WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Enhancing Security Using Legality Assertions
Buffer overflows have been the most common form of security vulnerability in the past decade. A number of techniques have been proposed to address such attacks. Some are limited t...
Lei Wang, James R. Cordy, Thomas R. Dean
ICISS
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
ValueGuard: Protection of Native Applications against Data-Only Buffer Overflows
Abstract. Code injection attacks that target the control-data of an application have been prevalent amongst exploit writers for over 20 years. Today however, these attacks are gett...
Steven Van Acker, Nick Nikiforakis, Pieter Philipp...