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SoftBound: Highly compatible and complete spatial memory safety for C
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Abstract
The serious bugs and security vulnerabilities facilitated by C/C++'s lack of bounds checking are well known, yet C and C++ remain in widespread use. Unfortunately, C's arbitrary pointer arithmetic, conflation of pointers and arrays, and programmer-visible memory layout make retrofitting C/C++ with spatial safety guarantees extremely challenging. Existing approaches suffer from incompleteness, have high runtime overhead, or require non-trivial changes to the C source code. Thus far, these deficiencies have prevented widespread adoption of such techniques.
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@misc{nagarakatte2009softbound,
title = {SoftBound: Highly compatible and complete spatial memory safety for C},
author = {Santosh Nagarakatte and Jianzhou Zhao and Milo M. K. Martin and Steve Zdancewic},
year = {2009},
journal = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation},
pages = {245--258},
doi = {10.1145/1542476.1542504},
}