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Can We Make It Better? Assessing And Improving Quality Of Github Repositories, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana
Can We Make It Better? Assessing And Improving Quality Of Github Repositories, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana
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The code hosting platform GitHub has gained immense popularity worldwide in recent years, with over 200 million repositories hosted as of June 2021. Due to its popularity, it has great potential to facilitate widespread improvements across many software projects. Naturally, GitHub has attracted much research attention, and the source code in the various repositories it hosts also provide opportunity to apply techniques and tools developed by software engineering researchers over the years. However, much of existing body of research applicable to GitHub focuses on code quality of the software projects and ways to improve them. Fewer work focus on potential …
Novel Techniques In Recovering, Embedding, And Enforcing Policies For Control-Flow Integrity, Yan Lin
Novel Techniques In Recovering, Embedding, And Enforcing Policies For Control-Flow Integrity, Yan Lin
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Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is an attractive security property with which most injected and code-reuse attacks can be defeated, including advanced attacking techniques like Return-Oriented Programming (ROP). CFI extracts a control-flow graph (CFG) for a given program and instruments the program to respect the CFG. Specifically, checks are inserted before indirect branch instructions. Before these instructions are executed during runtime, the checks consult the CFG to ensure that the indirect branch is allowed to reach the intended target. Hence, any sort of controlflow hijacking would be prevented. There are three fundamental components in CFI enforcement. The first component is accurately recovering …