Format String Exploitation

Format String Exploitation is a vulnerability exploitation technique that belongs to the class of memory corruption attacks, distinguished by its exploitation of improper input validation in formatted output functions to read from or write to arbitrary memory locations through user-supplied format specifiers.

Publications

390

Citations

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Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Binary ExploitationExploit DevelopmentExploitation Techniques

Publications

Securing Software by Enforcing Data-flow Integrity

2006 · 322 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +15

Automatic discovery of API-level exploits

Vinod Ganapathy, Sanjit A. Seshia, Somesh Jha et al. · 2005 · 27 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +15

Automated Format String Attack Prevention for Win32/X86 Binaries

Wei Li, Tzi‐cker Chiueh · 2007 · 21 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +16

Adaptive eager boolean encoding for arithmetic reasoning in verification

Sanjit A. Seshia, Randal E. Bryant · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 2005 · 20 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

Libsafe 2.0: Detection of Format String Vulnerability Exploits

Timothy Tsai, Navjot Singh · 2001 · 16 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Cybersecurity +13

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Authors

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Randal E. Bryant
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
2 publications · 47 citations
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Sanjit A. Seshia
University of California, Berkeley, United States
2 publications · 47 citations
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Vinod Ganapathy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States
1 publications · 27 citations
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Somesh Jha
University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
1 publications · 27 citations
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Wei Li
Nanjing University, China
1 publications · 21 citations
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Venues

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Repository · 1 publications · 20 citations
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