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IFM
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Certified Absence of Dangling Pointers in a Language with Explicit Deallocation
Safe is a first-order eager functional language with facilities for programmer controlled destruction and copying of data structures. It provides also regions, i.e. disjoint parts...
Javier de Dios, Manuel Montenegro, Ricardo Pe&ntil...
POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Demand-driven alias analysis for C
This paper presents a demand-driven, flow-insensitive analysis algorithm for answering may-alias queries. We formulate the computation of alias queries as a CFL-reachability probl...
Xin Zheng, Radu Rugina
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
USS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Cling: A Memory Allocator to Mitigate Dangling Pointers
Use-after-free vulnerabilities exploiting so-called dangling pointers to deallocated objects are just as dangerous as buffer overflows: they may enable arbitrary code execution. U...
Periklis Akritidis
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Hardbound: architectural support for spatial safety of the C programming language
The C programming language is at least as well known for its absence of spatial memory safety guarantees (i.e., lack of bounds checking) as it is for its high performance. C'...
Joe Devietti, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin, S...