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Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support
Computer systems rely heavily on abstraction to manage the exponential growth of complexity across hardware and software. Due to practical considerations of compatibility between components of these complex systems across generations, developers have favou ...
EPFL2024Preventing Use-After-Free Attacks with Fast Forward Allocation
Memory-unsafe languages are widely used to implement critical systems like kernels and browsers, leading to thousands of memory safety issues every year. A use-after-free bug is a temporal memory error where the program accidentally visits a freed memory l ...
USENIX ASSOC2021PoLPer: Process-Aware Restriction of Over-Privileged Setuid Calls in Legacy Applications
Mathias Josef Payer, Zhenyu Wu
setuid system calls enable critical functions such as user authentications and modular privileged components. Such operations must only be executed after careful validation. However, current systems do not perform rigorous checks, allowing exploitation of ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019Pulse generator for trauma patient simulator
Developing a Trauma Patient Simulator is a very ambitious project that goes far beyond what can be expected for a master thesis. Therefore, it has been decided to focus on blood circulation which is one of the three vital functions described in the first a ...
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