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2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
xCalls: safe I/O in memory transactions
Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
First-aid: surviving and preventing memory management bugs during production runs
Memory bugs in C/C++ programs severely affect system availability and security. This paper presents First-Aid, a lightweight runtime system that survives software failures caused ...
Qi Gao, Wenbin Zhang, Yan Tang, Feng Qin
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Isolating web programs in modern browser architectures
Many of today’s web sites contain substantial amounts of client-side code, and consequently, they act more like programs than simple documents. This creates robustness and perfo...
Charles Reis, Steven D. Gribble
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Dingo: taming device drivers
Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...