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WebAssembly (Wasm) is rapidly gaining popularity as a distribution format for software components embedded in various security-critical domains. Unfortunately, despite its prudent design, WebAssembly's primary use case as a compilation…

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Existing binary corpora typically capture only one or two axes of binary variation: they either provide cross-compiler builds without a temporal axis, or CVE labels for single-build binaries. None combine cross-build diversity,…

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WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that enables portable, sandboxed, and near-native execution across heterogeneous platforms, making it well-suited for serverless workflow execution on browsers, edge nodes, and cloud…

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Most memory sanitizers work by instrumenting the program at compile time. There are only a handful of memory sanitizers that can sanitize a binary program without source code. Most are location-based, and are therefore unable to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Jos Craaijo

Application partitioning and code offloading are being researched extensively during the past few years. Several frameworks for code offloading have been proposed. However, fewer works attempted to address issues occurred with its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Nevin Vunka Jungum , Nawaz Mohamudally , Nimal Nissanke

Motivated by the fast adoption of WebAssembly, we propose the first functional pipeline to support the superoptimization of WebAssembly bytecode. Our pipeline works over LLVM and Souper. We evaluate our superoptimization pipeline with 12…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Shrinish Donde , Jian Gu , Orestis Floros , Lucas Satabin , Benoit Baudry , Martin Monperrus

Disassembly is fundamental to binary analysis and rewriting. We present a novel disassembly technique that takes a stripped binary and produces reassembleable assembly code. The resulting assembly code has accurate symbolic information,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Antonio Flores-Montoya , Eric Schulte

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a bytecode format originally serving as a compilation target for Web applications. It has recently been used increasingly on the server side, e.g., providing a safer, faster, and more portable alternative to Linux…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Zihao Rao , Jiazhen Gu , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Since the origins of the Internet, various vulnerabilities exploiting the IP fragmentation process have plagued IPv4 protocol, many leading to a wide range of attacks. IPv6 modified the handling of fragmentations and introduced a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Edoardo Di Paolo , Enrico Bassetti , Angelo Spognardi

Website fingerprinting attacks enable an adversary to infer which website a victim is visiting, even if the victim uses an encrypting proxy, such as Tor. Previous work has shown that all proposed defenses against website fingerprinting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Xiang Cai , Rishab Nithyanand , Rob Johnson

Exposed Buffer Architecture addresses the problem of creating a programmable service platform for the digital continuum by reexamining the particular form of virtualization that is inherent to the Internet architecture. In the Internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Micah Beck , Terry Moore

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a crucial defense mechanism employed by modern operating systems to mitigate exploitation by randomizing processes' memory layouts. However, the stark reality is that real-world implementations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Lorenzo Binosi , Gregorio Barzasi , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Mario Polino

This paper describes a new approach for allocating resources to video streaming traffic. Assuming that the future channel state can be predicted for a certain time, we minimize the fraction of the bandwidth consumed for smooth streaming by…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-04-11 Sanam Sadr , Stefan Valentin

Browser fingerprinting defenses have historically focused on detecting JavaScript(JS)-based tracking techniques. However, the widespread adoption of WebAssembly (WASM) introduces a potential blind spot, as adversaries can convert JS to…

Detecting buffer overruns from a source code is one of the most common and yet challenging tasks in program analysis. Current approaches have mainly relied on rigid rules and handcrafted features devised by a few experts, limiting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Min-je Choi , Sehun Jeong , Hakjoo Oh , Jaegul Choo

Web client fingerprinting has become a widely used technique for uniquely identifying users, browsers, operating systems, and devices with high accuracy. While it is beneficial for applications such as fraud detection and personalized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mordechai Guri , Dor Fibert

To provide a better streaming experience, video clients today select their video rates by observing and estimating the available capacity. Recent work has shown that capacity estimation is fraught with difficulties because of complex…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-13 Te-Yuan Huang , Ramesh Johari , Nick McKeown , Matthew Trunnell , Mark Watson

Motivated by bursty bandwidth allocation and by the allocation of virtual machines to servers in the cloud, we consider the online problem of packing items with random sizes into unit-capacity bins. Items arrive sequentially, but upon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Mohit Singh , Alejandro Toriello

Video streaming is in high demand by mobile users, as recent studies indicate. In cellular networks, however, the unreliable wireless channel leads to two major problems. Poor channel states degrade video quality and interrupt the playback…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Martin Dräxler , Johannes Blobel , Philipp Dreimann , Stefan Valentin , Holger Karl

Fault injection attacks can cause errors in software for malicious purposes. Oftentimes, vulnerable points of a program are detected after its development. It is therefore critical for the user of the program to be able to apply last-minute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pantea Kiaei , Cees-Bart Breunesse , Mohsen Ahmadi , Patrick Schaumont , Jasper van Woudenberg