Automatically Finding and Patching Bad Error Handling

Authors:
Martin Susskraut;Christof Fetzer
Affiliations:
Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany;Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
Venue:
EDCC '06 Proceedings of the Sixth European Dependable Computing Conference
Year:
2006

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Abstract

It has been well established that most operating system crashes are due to bugs in device drivers. Because drivers are normally linked into the kernel address space, a buggy driver can wipe out kernel tables and bring the system crashing to a grinding ...