Countering Network Worms Through Automatic Patch Generation

  • Authors:
  • Stelios Sidiroglou;Angelos D. Keromytis

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia University;Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

To counter zero-day worms that exploit software flaws such as buffer overflows, this end-point architecture uses source code transformations to automatically create and test software patches for vulnerable segments of targeted applications.