BIRD: Binary Interpretation using Runtime Disassembly
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization
Secure and practical defense against code-injection attacks using software dynamic translation
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual execution environments
Dynamic code instrumentation to detect and recover from return address corruption
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Dynamic systems analysis
FaCSim: a fast and cycle-accurate architecture simulator for embedded systems
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGBED conference on Languages, compilers, and tools for embedded systems
Multi-variant program execution for vulnerability detection and analysis
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research
Fine-grained user-space security through virtualization
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Protecting applications against TOCTTOU races by user-space caching of file metadata
VEE '12 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS conference on Virtual Execution Environments
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Software dynamic translation is the alteration of a running program to achieve a specific objective. For example, a dynamic optimizer uses software dynamic translation to modify a running program with the objective of making the program run faster. In addition to its demonstrated utility in dynamic optimizers, software dynamic translation also shows promise for producing applications that are adaptable, secure, and robust. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an extensible, retargetable infrastructure to facilitate research in applications of software dynamic translation technology. The infrastructure, called Strata, provides the software dynamic translator implementor with a virtual machine model that can be extended to implement specific software dynamic translation functionality. To illustrate the use of Strata to build client applications, the paper describes the Strata implementation of a two dynamic safety checkers and a dynamic instruction scheduler.