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Preventing 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 ASSOC2021

Low-Cost Side-Channel Secure Standard 6T-SRAM-Based Memory With a 1% Area and Less Than 5% Latency and Power Overheads

Robert Giterman

Side-channel attacks constitute a concrete threat to IoT systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). Embedded memories implemented with 6T SRAM macrocells often dominate the area and power consumption of these SoCs. Regardless of the computational platform, the side-channel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Detailed Heap Profiling

James Richard Larus, Stuart Anthony Byma

Modern software systems heavily use the memory heap. As systems grow more complex and compute with increasing amounts of data, it can be difficult for developers to understand how their programs actually use the bytes that they allocate on the heap and whe ...

ACM2018

LMS-Verify: Abstraction without Regret for Verified Systems Programming’

Nada Amin, Tiark Rompf

Performance critical software is almost always developed in C, as programmers do not trust high-level languages to deliver the same reliable performance. This is bad because low-level code in unsafe languages attracts security vulnerabilities and because d ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2017

Approximate Computing With Unreliable Dynamic Memories

Andreas Peter Burg, Georgios Karakonstantis, Adam Shmuel Teman, Robert Giterman, Shrikanth Ganapathy

Embedded memories account for a large fraction of the overall silicon area and power consumption in modern SoC(s). While embedded memories are typically realized with SRAM, alternative solutions, such as embedded dynamic memories (eDRAM), can provide highe ...

2015

Heterogeneous Error-Resilient Scheme for Spectral Analysis in Ultra-Low Power Wearable Electrocardiogram Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Soumya Subhra Basu, Georgios Karakonstantis, Giovanni Ansaloni

Wearable devices performing advanced bio-signal analysis algorithms will foster a revolution in healthcare provision of chronic cardiac diseases. In this context, energy efficiency is of paramount importance, as long-term operations must be performed withi ...

IEEE Press2015

Code-Pointer Integrity

George Candea, Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Mathias Josef Payer

Systems code is often written in low-level languages like C/C++, which offer many benefits but also delegate memory management to programmers. This invites memory safety bugs that attackers can exploit to divert control flow and compromise the system. Depl ...

2014

Why Nothing Matters: The Impact of Zeroing

Jennifer Bedke Sartor, Xi Yang

Memory safety defends against inadvertent and malicious misuse of memory that may compromise program correctness and security. A critical element of memory safety is zero initialization. The direct cost of zero initialization is surprisingly high: up to 12 ...

2011

Opis: Reliable Distributed Systems in OCaml

Dejan Kostic, Viktor Kuncak, Pierre-Evariste Dagand

Concurrency and distribution pose algorithmic and implementation challenges in developing reliable distributed systems, making the field an excellent testbed for evaluating programming language and verification paradigms. Several specialized domain-specifi ...

2009

Opis: Reliable Distributed Systems in OCaml

Dejan Kostic, Viktor Kuncak, Pierre-Evariste Dagand

Concurrency and distribution pose algorithmic and implementation challenges in developing reliable distributed systems, making the field an excellent testbed for evaluating programming language and verification paradigms. Several specialized domain-specifi ...

2009

Reflexes: programming abstractions for highly responsive computing in Java

Jesper Honig Spring

Achieving sub-millisecond response times in a managed language environment such as Java introduces significant implementation challenges. The Achilles' heel of Java is its reliance on automatic memory management for reclaiming dead objects. Typically, the ...

EPFL2008