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Systems exploiting network coding to increase their throughput suffer greatly from pollution attacks which consist of injecting malicious packets in the network. The pollution attacks are amplified by the network coding process, resulting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-18 Frederique Oggier , Hanane Fathi

Regular expressions are used for diverse purposes, including input validation and firewalls. Unfortunately, they can also lead to a security vulnerability called ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service), caused by a super-linear…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Sk Adnan Hassan , Zainab Aamir , Dongyoon Lee , James C. Davis , Francisco Servant

Web services use server-side input sanitization to guard against harmful input. Some web services publish their sanitization logic to make their client interface more usable, e.g., allowing clients to debug invalid requests locally.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Efe Barlas , Xin Du , James C. Davis

A major security challenge for modern Internet of Things (IoT) deployments is to ensure that the devices run legitimate firmware free from malware. This challenge can be addressed through a security primitive called attestation which allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Stefan Hristozov , Moritz Wettermann , Manuel Huber

The rapidly evolving Node$.$js ecosystem currently includes millions of packages and is a critical part of modern software supply chains, making vulnerability detection of Node$.$js packages increasingly important. However, traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ronghao Ni , Mihai Christodorescu , Limin Jia

In recent years, on-device deep learning has gained attention as a means of developing affordable deep learning applications for mobile devices. However, on-device models are constrained by limited energy and computation resources. In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Zijian Wang , Shuo Huang , Yujin Huang , Helei Cui

The rapid proliferation of IoT nodes equipped with microphones and capable of performing on-device audio classification exposes highly sensitive data while operating under tight resource constraints. To protect against this, we present a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sergio Benlloch-Lopez , Miquel Viel-Vazquez , Javier Naranjo-Alcazar , Jordi Grau-Haro , Pedro Zuccarello

This paper provides a survey of methods and tools for automated code-reuse exploit generation. Such exploits use code that is already contained in a vulnerable program. The code-reuse approach allows one to exploit vulnerabilities in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Alexey Vishnyakov , Alexey Nurmukhametov

Many IoT use cases involve constrained battery-powered devices offering services in a RESTful manner to their communication partners. Such services may involve, e.g., costly computations or actuator/sensor usage, which may have significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Stefan Hristozov , Manuel Huber , Georg Sigl

With tools like GitHub Copilot, automatic code suggestion is no longer a dream in software engineering. These tools, based on large language models, are typically trained on massive corpora of code mined from unvetted public sources. As a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Hojjat Aghakhani , Wei Dai , Andre Manoel , Xavier Fernandes , Anant Kharkar , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna , David Evans , Ben Zorn , Robert Sim

In the open source software (OSS) ecosystem, there exists a complex software supply chain, where developers upstream and downstream widely borrow and reuse code. This results in the widespread occurrence of recurring defects, missing fixes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Fuwei Wang , Yongzhi Liu , Zhiqiang Dong

Code Large Language Models (CLLMs) serve as the core of modern code agents, enabling developers to automate complex software development tasks. In this paper, we present Poison-with-Style (PwS), a practical and stealthy model poisoning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Khang Tran , Yazan Boshmaf , Issa Khalil , NhatHai Phan , Ting Yu , Md Rizwan Parvez

Algorithmic complexity vulnerabilities are a class of security problems that enables attackers to trigger the worst-case complexity of certain algorithms. Such vulnerabilities can be leveraged to deploy low-volume, asymmetric, CPU-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

System services and resources in Android are accessed through IPC based mechanisms. Previous research has demonstrated that they are vulnerable to the denial-of-service attack (DoS attack). For instance, the JNI global reference (JGR),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Yi He , Yuan Zhou , Yacong Gu , Purui Su , Qi Li , Yajin Zhou , Yong Jiang

We present a new type of attack in which source code is maliciously encoded so that it appears different to a compiler and to the human eye. This attack exploits subtleties in text-encoding standards such as Unicode to produce source code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Nicholas Boucher , Ross Anderson

Software vulnerabilities have a large negative impact on the software systems that we depend on daily. Reports on software vulnerabilities always paint a grim picture, with some reports showing that 83% of organizations depend on vulnerable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mahmoud Alfadel , Diego Elias Costa , Mouafak Mokhallalati , Emad Shihab , Bram Adams

Environmental noise (e.g.heat, ionized particles, etc.) causes transient faults in hardware, which lead to corruption of stored values. Mission-critical devices require such faults to be mitigated by fault-tolerance --- a combination of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Filippo Del Tedesco , David Sands , Alejandro Russo

More and more industrial devices are connected to IP-based networks, as this is essential for the success of Industry 4.0. However, this interconnection also results in an increased attack surface for various network-based attacks. One of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Florian Fischer , Matthias Niedermaier , Thomas Hanka , Peter Knauer , Dominik Merli

Botnets have become a serious security threat not only to the Internet but also to the devices connected to it. Factors like the exponential growth of IoT, the COVID-19 pandemic that's sweeping the planet, and the ever-larger number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Zubair Khaliq , Dawood Ashraf Khan , Asif Iqbal Baba , Shahbaz Ali , Sheikh Umar Farooq

Intra-session network coding is known to be vulnerable to pollution attacks. In this work, first, we introduce a novel homomorphic MAC scheme called SpaceMac, which allows an intermediate node to verify if its received packets belong to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-19 Anh Le , Athina Markopoulou