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Preventing Use-After-Free Attacks with Fast Forward Allocation

Year: 2021

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: 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 location. Recent studies show that use-after-free is one of the most exploited memory vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, previous efforts to mitigate use-after-free bugs are not widely deployed in real-world programs due to either inadequate accuracy or high performance overhead.

Source: Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Authors: Wickman, Brian, Hu, Hong, Yun, Insu, Jang, Daehee, Lim, JungWon, Kashyap, Sanidhya, Kim, Taesoo

Institutions: Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Security and Verification in Computing

Subfield: Hardware and Architecture

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3161722915

FWCI: 2.599

Cites: 18

Cited by: 21

Related to: 10