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Heap Overflows

Heap Overflow is a type of memory safety vulnerability in which excessive data is written into a heap-allocated buffer, exceeding its bounds and corrupting adjacent memory regions, thereby potentially enabling unauthorized code execution or program state manipulation.

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Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Heap-based Buffer Overflows

Parents

Publications

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Pointguard TM : protecting pointers from buffer overflow vulnerabilities

Crispin Cowan, Steve Beattie, John Johansen et al. · 2003 · 349 citations

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Efficient techniques for comprehensive protection from memory error exploits

Sandeep Bhatkar, R. Sekar, Daniel C. DuVarney · 2005 · 297 citations

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DieHarder

Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger · 2010 · 206 citations

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Beyond stack smashing: recent advances in exploiting buffer overruns

Jon Pincus, Brian Baker · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2004 · 203 citations

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Heap bounds protection with low fat pointers

Gregory J. Duck, Roland H. C. Yap · 2016 · 107 citations

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Authors

114

  1. HL
    Han-Lin Lu

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

    2 publications · 95 citations

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  2. GN
    Gene Novark

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    2 publications · 223 citations

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  3. SH
    Shih-Kun Huang

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

    2 publications · 95 citations

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  4. EK
    Elliot K. Kolodner

    IBM Research - Haifa, Israel

    2 publications · 37 citations

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  5. DK
    Daniel Kroening

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 45 citations

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Institutions

52

  1. Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    254 citations

  2. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    457 citations

  3. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    446 citations

  4. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    34 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    135 citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    111 citations

  7. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    457 citations

  8. Royal Holloway University of London

    Egham, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    339 citations

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Venues

  1. Software Practice and Experience

    2 publications · 47 citations

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  2. USENIX Security Symposium

    Conference · 2 publications · 35 citations

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  3. BMC Bioinformatics

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Reliability

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  5. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 1 publications · 10 citations

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