Runtime property checking (as implemented in tools like Purify or Valgrind) checks whether a program execution satisfies a property. Active property checking extends runtime check...
Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, David A. Moln...
In this paper we explore the problem of creating vulnerability signatures. A vulnerability signature matches all exploits of a given vulnerability, even polymorphic or metamorphic...
David Brumley, James Newsome, Dawn Xiaodong Song, ...
Computer architects are constantly faced with the need to improve performance and increase the efficiency of computation in their designs. To this end, it is increasingly common ...
Nathan Clark, Amir Hormati, Scott A. Mahlke, Sami ...
Program input syntactic structure is essential for a wide range of applications such as test case generation, software debugging and network security. However, such important info...
Optimizing programs at run-time provides opportunities to apply aggressive optimizations to programs based on information that was not available at compile time. At run time, prog...