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EUROSYS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Thorough static analysis of device drivers
Bugs in kernel-level device drivers cause 85% of the system crashes in the Windows XP operating system [44]. One of the sources of these errors is the complexity of the Windows dr...
Thomas Ball, Ella Bounimova, Byron Cook, Vladimir ...
SP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Preventing Memory Error Exploits with WIT
Attacks often exploit memory errors to gain control over the execution of vulnerable programs. These attacks remain a serious problem despite previous research on techniques to pr...
Periklis Akritidis, Cristian Cadar, Costin Raiciu,...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Finding bugs in exceptional situations of JNI programs
Software flaws in native methods may defeat Java’s guarantees of safety and security. One common kind of flaws in native methods results from the discrepancy on how exceptions...
Siliang Li, Gang Tan
SP
2002
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Improving Computer Security Using Extended Static Checking
We describe a method for finding security flaws in source code by way of static analysis. The method is notable because it allows a user to specify a wide range of security proper...
Brian Chess
C3S2E
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Context-sensitive cut, copy, and paste
Creating and editing source code are tedious and error-prone processes. One important source of errors in editing programs is the failure to correctly adapt a block of copied code...
Reid Kerr, Wolfgang Stürzlinger