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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Protecting C programs from attacks via invalid pointer dereferences
Writes via unchecked pointer dereferences rank high among vulnerabilities most often exploited by malicious code. The most common attacks use an unchecked string copy to cause a b...
Suan Hsi Yong, Susan Horwitz
SP
2003
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine
We present an experimental study showing that soft memory errors can lead to serious security vulnerabilities in Java and .NET virtual machines, or in any system that relies on ty...
Sudhakar Govindavajhala, Andrew W. Appel
IEEEARES
2010
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
LSM-Based Secure System Monitoring Using Kernel Protection Schemes
—Monitoring a process and its file I/O behaviors is important for security inspection for a data center server against intrusions, malware infection and information leakage. In ...
Takamasa Isohara, Keisuke Takemori, Yutaka Miyake,...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Protecting Kernel Code and Data with a Virtualization-Aware Collaborative Operating System
Abstract—The traditional virtual machine usage model advocates placing security mechanisms in a trusted VM layer and letting the untrusted guest OS run unaware of the presence of...
Daniela Alvim Seabra de Oliveira, Shyhtsun Felix W...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Surgically Returning to Randomized lib(c)
—To strengthen systems against code injection attacks, the write or execute only policy (W⊕X) and address space layout randomization (ASLR) are typically used in combination. T...
Giampaolo Fresi Roglia, Lorenzo Martignoni, Robert...