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IEEEARES
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Type and Effect Annotations for Safe Memory Access in C
In this paper, we present a novel type and effect analysis for detecting memory errors in C source code. We extend the standard C type system with effect, region, and host annotat...
Syrine Tlili, Mourad Debbabi
FMCO
2007
Springer
103views Formal Methods» more  FMCO 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Safety Guarantees from Explicit Resource Management
We present a language and a program analysis that certifies the safe use of flexible resource management idioms, in particular advance reservation or “block booking” of costl...
David Aspinall, Patrick Maier, Ian Stark
HPCC
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A Loop-Aware Search Strategy for Automated Performance Analysis
Abstract. Automated online search is a powerful technique for performance diagnosis. Such a search can change the types of experiments it performs while the program is running, mak...
Eli D. Collins, Barton P. Miller
MICRO
2006
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
14 years 2 months ago
LIFT: A Low-Overhead Practical Information Flow Tracking System for Detecting Security Attacks
Computer security is severely threatened by software vulnerabilities. Prior work shows that information flow tracking (also referred to as taint analysis) is a promising techniqu...
Feng Qin, Cheng Wang, Zhenmin Li, Ho-Seop Kim, Yua...
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,...