This paper proposes a code reuse mechanism called module embedding that enables the building of new modules from existing ones through inheritance, overriding of procedures, and overriding of types; the paper also describes an implementation scheme for this mechanism. Module embedding is beneficial when modules and classes are used in combination and need to be extended together, or when module...

The enormous growth of mobile devices and their app markets has raised many security and privacy concerns. Runtime attacks seem to be a major threat, in particular, codereuse attacks that do not require any external code injection (e.g., return-to-libc or return-oriented programming). We present, for the first time, a code transformation tool that completely mitigates code-reuse attacks by appl...

Many end-user programming environments are “reuse environments” that store and organize code so users can extend, adapt, and combine existing code. Yet to date, no well-validated, theorybased body of design principles exists for guiding the development of these reuse environments. The contribution of this survey paper is to identify relevant theoretical perspectives and candidate design princip...

We propose a method that enables effective code reuse between evolutionary runs that solve a set of related visual learning tasks. We start with introducing a visual learning approach that uses genetic programming individuals to recognize objects. The process of recognition is generative, i.e., requires the learner to restore the shape of the processed object. This method is extended with a cod...

As modern software grows more and more complex, various techniques are invented or introduced to this field to increase productivity and reliability of software development. Software reuse plays an important role with respect to this goal. This essay tries to summarize popular techniques in software reuse field. Basing on a set of terminologies, we examine the nature of the techniques by clarif...

Many experts believe that new malware is created at a rate faster than legitimate software. For example, in 2007 over one million new malware samples were collected by a major security solution vendor. However, it is often speculated, though to the best of our knowledge unproven, that new malware is produced by modifying existing malware, either through simple tweaks, code composition, or a var...

The advent of the Internet has caused an increase in content reuse, including source code. The purpose of this research is to uncover potential cases of source code reuse in large-scale environments. A good example is academia, where massive courses are taught to students who must demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge. The need of detecting content reuse in quasi real-time encourage...

Control Flow Integrity (CFI) is one of the most promising technique to defend Code-Reuse Attacks (CRAs). Traditional CFI Systems and recent Context-Sensitive CFI use coarse control flow graphs (CFGs) to analyze whether the control flow hijack occurs, left vast space for attackers at indirect call-sites. Coarse CFGs make it difficult to decide which target to execute at indirect control-flow tra...

Software reuse has been demonstrated to increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve software quality. The research that has addressed this problem has concentrated on code created in the functional domain. However, in recent years much object-oriented code has been developed. In many cases eventual reuse of the code was not considered in the software development process, and so even though...