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Dangling pointer

Known as: Use-after-free, Dangling pointers, Wild reference 
Dangling pointers and wild pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are… (More)
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Dangling pointer
Software bug
C++
Vulnerability (computing)
Pointer (computer programming)
Computer programming

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2015
2015
Preventing Use-after-free with Dangling Pointers Nullification
Many system components and network applications are written in languages that are prone to memory corruption vulnerabilities… (More)
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2015
2015
Everything You Want to Know About Pointer-Based Checking
Lack of memory safety in C/C++ has resulted in numerous security vulnerabilities and serious bugs in large software systems. This… (More)
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2015
2015
FreeSentry: protecting against use-after-free vulnerabilities due to dangling pointers
Use-after-free vulnerabilities have become an important class of security problems due to the existence of mitigations that… (More)
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2012
2012
Undangle: early detection of dangling pointers in use-after-free and double-free vulnerabilities
Use-after-free vulnerabilities are rapidly growing in popularity, especially for exploiting web browsers. Use-after-free (and… (More)
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Cling: A Memory Allocator to Mitigate Dangling Pointers
Use-after-free vulnerabilities exploiting so-called dangling pointers to deallocated objects are just as dangerous as buffer… (More)
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
Efficiently Detecting All Dangling Pointer Uses in Production Servers
In this paper, we propose a novel technique to detect all dangling pointer uses at run-time that is efficient enough for… (More)
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2006
2006
Application of Computational Redundancy in Dangling Pointers Detection
Many programmers manipulate dynamic data improperly, which may produce dynamic memory problems, such as dangling pointer… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
RNAshapes: an integrated RNA analysis package based on abstract shapes
We introduce RNAshapes, a new software package that integrates three RNA analysis tools based on the abstract shapes approach… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
BI as an Assertion Language for Mutable Data Structures
Reynolds has developed a logic for reasoning about mutable data structures in which the pre- and postconditions are written in an… (More)
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2000
2000
Generic Software Components for Scientific Computing
ion The next step consists in uncovering commonalities and variabilities [Cop98] in requirements and functionality of algorithms… (More)
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