Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

iCruiser: An Improved Approach for Concurrent Heap Buffer Overflow Monitoring

2014; Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers; Volume: E97.D; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1587/transinf.e97.d.601

ISSN

1745-1361

Autores

Donghai Tian, Xuanya Li, Mo Chen, Changzhen Hu,

Tópico(s)

Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research

Resumo

Heap buffer overflow has been extensively studied for many years, but it remains a severe threat to software security. Previous solutions suffer from limitations in that: 1) Some methods need to modify the target programs; 2) Most methods could impose considerable performance overhead. In this paper, we present iCruiser, an efficient heap buffer overflow monitoring system that uses the multi-core technology. Our system is compatible with existing programs, and it can detect the heap buffer overflows concurrently. Compared with the latest heap protection systems, our approach can achieves stronger security guarantees. Experiments show that iCruiser can detect heap buffer overflow attacks effectively with a little performance overhead.

Referência(s)