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DIMVA
2010
14 years 1 months ago
HookScout: Proactive Binary-Centric Hook Detection
Abstract. In order to obtain and maintain control, kernel malware usually makes persistent control flow modifications (i.e., installing hooks). To avoid detection, malware develope...
Heng Yin, Pongsin Poosankam, Steve Hanna, Dawn Xia...
APSEC
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Accurate Call Graph Extraction of Programs with Function Pointers Using Type Signatures
Software engineers need to understand programs in order to effectively maintain them. The call graph, which presents the calling relationships between functions, is a useful repre...
Darren C. Atkinson
TAPSOFT
1997
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On the Complexity of Function Pointer May-Alias Analysis
This paper considers the complexity of interprocedural function pointer may-alias analysis, i.e., determining the set of functions that a function pointer (in a language such as C...
Robert Muth, Saumya K. Debray
SCAM
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Precise Call Graph Construction in the Presence of Function Pointers
The use of pointers presents serious problems for software productivity tools for software understanding, restructuring, and testing. Pointers enable indirect memory accesses thro...
Ana Milanova, Atanas Rountev, Barbara G. Ryder
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
FPValidator: Validating Type Equivalence of Function Pointers on the Fly
—Validating function pointers dynamically is very useful for intrusion detection since many runtime attacks exploit function pointer vulnerabilities. Most current solutions tackl...
Hua Wang, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen