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Baggy Bounds Checking: An Efficient and Backwards-Compatible Defense against Out-of-Bounds Errors

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Attacks that exploit out-of-bounds errors in C and C++ programs are still prevalent despite many years of research on bounds checking. We present a backwards compatible bounds checking technique that substantially reduces performance overhead. The key insight is to constrain the sizes of allocated memory regions and their alignment to enable efficient bounds lookups and efficient bounds checks at runtime. Our technique is three times faster—using less memory— than the fastest previous technique.

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar series.

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