2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'03)
HEALERS: A Toolkit for Enhancing the Robustness and Security of Existing Applications
San Francisco, California
June 22-June 25
ISBN: 0-7695-1952-0
HEALERS is a practical, high-performance toolkit that can enhance the robustness and security of existing applications. For any shared library, it can find all functions defined in that library and automatically derives properties for those functions. Through automated fault-injection experiments, it can detect arguments that cause the library to crash and derive safe argument types for each function. The toolkit can prevent heap and stack buffer overflows that are a common cause of security breaches. The nice feature of the HEALERS approach is that it can protect existing applications without access to the source code.
Index Terms:
reliability, robustness, security, wrapper, fault tolerance
Citation:
Christof Fetzer, Zhen Xiao, "HEALERS: A Toolkit for Enhancing the Robustness and Security of Existing Applications," dsn, pp.317, 2003 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'03), 2003