Building systems that flexibly control downloaded executable context

  • Authors:
  • Trent Jaeger;Aviel D. Rubin;Atul Prakash

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Systems Research Lab, EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI;Security Research Group, Bellcore, Morristown, NJ;Software Systems Research Lab, EECS Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • SSYM'96 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, Focusing on Applications of Cryptography - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Many popular programs, such as Netscape, use untrusted helper applications to process data from the network. Unfortunately, the unauthenticated network data they interpret could well have been created by an adversary, and the helper applications are ...