code reuse attacks such as return oriented programming and jump oriented programming become the most popular exploitation methods among attackers. a large number of practical and non-practical defenses have been proposed that differ in their overhead, the source code requirement, detection rate and implementation dependencies. however, a usual aspect among them is to consider the common behavio...

The protection landscape is changing and exploits are getting more and more sophisticated. Exploit generation toolkits can be used to construct exploits for specific applications using well-defined algorithms. We present such an algorithm for leveraging format strings and introduce string oriented programming. String oriented programming takes format string exploits to the next level and turns ...

Code reuse attacks such as return oriented programming and jump oriented programming are the most popular exploitation methods among attackers. A large number of practical and non-practical defenses are proposed that differ in their overhead, the source code requirement, detection rate and implementation dependencies. However, a usual aspect among these methods is consideration of the common be...

Object-oriented languages have recently become common, making register indirect jumps more important than ever. In objectoriented languages, virtual functions are heavily used because they improve programming productivity greatly. Virtual function calls usually consist of register indirect jumps, and consequently, programs written in objectoriented languages contain many register indirect jumps...

The Java programming language and environment is stimulating new research activities in many areas of computing, not the least of which is parallel computing. Parallel techniques are themselves finding new uses in cluster computing systems. Although there are excellent software tools for scheduling , monitoring and message-based programming on parallel clusters, these systems are not yet well i...