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SecuriFly: Runtime Protection and Recovery From Web Application Vulnerabilities

Overview This paper presents a runtime solution to a range of Web application security vulnerabilities. The solution the paper proposes called SecuriFly consists of instrumenting the application to precisely track the flow of data. When a potential vulnerability is observed, the application is either terminated to prevent the vulnerability from being exploited or special recovery code is executed and the application is allowed to continue on running. The paper has used SecuriFly to harden and experiment with a range of large open-source benchmarks written in Java. Protection provided by SecuriFly was sufficient to protect against all exploits it were able to generate.

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Publisher	Stanford University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Java, Programming Languages, Security Management

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