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DSN
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Convicting exploitable software vulnerabilities: An efficient input provenance based approach
Software vulnerabilities are the root cause of a wide range of attacks. Existing vulnerability scanning tools are able to produce a set of suspects. However, they often suffer fro...
Zhiqiang Lin, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
PODC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
On k-Set Consensus Problems in Asynchronous Systems
ÐIn this paper, we investigate the k-set consensus problem in asynchronous distributed systems. In this problem, each participating process begins the protocol with an input value...
Roberto De Prisco, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reite...
SPIN
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Execution Generated Test Cases: How to Make Systems Code Crash Itself
Abstract. This paper presents a technique that uses code to automatically generate its own test cases at run-time by using a combination of symbolic and concrete (i.e., regular) ex...
Cristian Cadar, Dawson R. Engler
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mitosis compiler: an infrastructure for speculative threading based on pre-computation slices
Speculative parallelization can provide significant sources of additional thread-level parallelism, especially for irregular applications that are hard to parallelize by conventio...
Carlos García Quiñones, Carlos Madri...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
A MILP-based approach to path sensitization of embedded software
—We propose a new methodology based on Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) for determining the input values that will exercise a specified execution path in a program. In or...
José C. Costa, José C. Monteiro