Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors
such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors can …

Software attacks often subvert the intended data-flow in a vulnerable program. For example,
attackers exploit buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities to write data to unintended …

Message-based communication offers the potential benefits of providing stronger
specification and cleaner separation between components. Compared with shared-memory …

We present SafeDrive, a system for detecting and recovering from type safety violations in
software extensions. SafeDrive has low overhead and requires minimal changes to existing …

A buffer overflow attack is perhaps the most common attack used to compromise the security
of a host. This attack can be used to change the function return address and redirect …

In previous work, we proposed a Hoare Type Theory (HTT) which combines effectful higher-
order functions, dependent types and Hoare Logic specifications into a unified framework …

Type safety is a promising approach to enhancing software security. Programs written in
type-safe programming languages such as Java are type-safe by construction. However, in …

Security and reliability in processor based systems are concernsrequiring adroit solutions.
Securityis often compromised by code injection attacks, jeopardizing eventrusted software' …

This tutorial paper considers the issues of low-level software security from a language-
based perspective, with the help of concrete examples. Four examples of low-level software …

While the number of transistors on a chip increases exponentially over time, the productivity
that can be realized from these systems has not kept pace. To deal with the complexity of …