NDLI: Tainting is not pointless

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Dalton, Michael Kannan, Hari Kozyrakis, Christos
Abstract	Pointer tainting is a form of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking used primarily to prevent software security attacks such as buffer overflows. Researchers have also applied pointer tainting to malware and virus analysis. A recent paper by Slowinska and Bos has criticized pointer tainting as a security mechanism, arguing that it is has serious, inherent false positive and false negative defects. We present a rebuttal that addresses the confusion due to the two uses of pointer tainting in security literature. We clarify that many of the arguments against pointer tainting apply only to its use as a malware and virus analysis platform, but do not apply to the application of pointer tainting to memory corruption protection. Hence, we argue that pointer tainting remains a useful and promising technique for robust protection against memory corruption attacks.
Starting Page	88
Ending Page	92
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635980
DOI	10.1145/1773912.1773933
Journal	ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OPSR)
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1975-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Dynamic information flow tracking Memory corruption Buffer overflow Virus detection Malware detection Pointer tainting Software security
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems

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