Detecting heap smashing attacks through fault containment wrappers

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 80-89

  Fetzer, C ^a   Xiao, Z ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging support; Fault tolerance; System security

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SECURITY OF DATA;

BUFFER OVERFLOW ATTACKS; FAULT CONTAINMENT WRAPPERS; HEAP SMASHING ATTACKS; LINUX OPERATING SYSTEMS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035195201     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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