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SIGSOFT
2003
ACM
14 years 11 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
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Fast and automated generation of attack signatures: a basis for building self-protecting servers
Large-scale attacks, such as those launched by worms and zombie farms, pose a serious threat to our network-centric society. Existing approaches such as software patches are simpl...
Zhenkai Liang, R. Sekar
CCS
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic diagnosis and response to memory corruption vulnerabilities
Cyber attacks against networked computers have become relentless in recent years. The most common attack method is to exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities such as buffer ove...
Jun Xu, Peng Ning, Chongkyung Kil, Yan Zhai, Chris...
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Filter-resistant code injection on ARM
Code injections attacks are one of the most powerful and important classes of attacks on software. In such attacks, the attacker sends malicious input to a software application, w...
Yves Younan, Pieter Philippaerts, Frank Piessens, ...
CCS
2004
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On the effectiveness of address-space randomization
Address-space randomization is a technique used to fortify systems against bu er over ow attacks. The idea is to introduce arti cial diversity by randomizing the memory location o...
Hovav Shacham, Matthew Page, Ben Pfaff, Eu-Jin Goh...