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Null Pointer Dereferences

Null Pointer Dereference is a type of memory safety vulnerability in which a program attempts to access or manipulate data through a pointer that has not been initialized or has been set to null, resulting in undefined behavior or program termination.

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2K

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91

Authors

39

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Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

36

Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs

Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh, David Hovemeyer et al. · IEEE Software · 2008 · 522 citations

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Building and using pluggable type-checkers

Werner Dietl, Stephanie Dietzel, Michael D. Ernst et al. · 2011 · 112 citations

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Roman Manevich, Manu Sridharan, Stephen Adams et al. · 2004 · 106 citations

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Catching bugs in the web of program invariants

Cormac Flanagan, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi et al. · 1996 · 90 citations

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Static automated program repair for heap properties

Rijnard van Tonder, Claire Le Goues · 2018 · 90 citations · Full text

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Authors

91

  1. DH
    David Hovemeyer

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    4 publications · 699 citations

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  2. WP
    William Pugh

    University of Maryland, College Park, United States

    4 publications · 699 citations

    4

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  3. YX
    Yichen Xie

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 98 citations

    3

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  4. SS
    Saurabh Sinha

    Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 152 citations

    3

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  5. DE
    Dawson Engler

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 98 citations

    3

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Institutions

39

  1. IBM Research - India

    New Delhi, India

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    248 citations

  2. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    184 citations

  3. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    196 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    126 citations

  6. China University of Mining and Technology

    Xuzhou, China

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    188 citations

  7. Microsoft (Finland)

    Espoo, Finland

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    378 citations

  8. Samsung (South Korea)

    Seoul, South Korea

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

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Venues

  1. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  2. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

    SEN · 2 publications · 109 citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 1 publications · 52 citations

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  4. Figshare

    Repository · 1 publications · 13 citations

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