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...
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...
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...
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, ...
Address-space randomization is a technique used to fortify systems against buer over
ow attacks. The idea is to introduce articial diversity by randomizing the memory location o...
Hovav Shacham, Matthew Page, Ben Pfaff, Eu-Jin Goh...