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This work has been supported by the MINECO and European Commission (FEDER funds) under Project RTI2018-098156-B-C52, by the JCCM under the Project SB-PLY/17/180501/00035, by the Spanish Education, Culture and Sports Ministry under Grants FPU 17/03105 and FPU 17/02007, by the University of Castilla-La Mancha under the contract 2018-PREDUCLM-7476.

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An instrumentation based algorithm for stack overflow detection

Publicated to:Journal Of Computer Virology And Hacking Techniques. 16 (3): 245-256 - 2020-07-02 16(3), DOI: 10.1007/s11416-020-00359-7

Authors: Carrillo-Mondejar, J; Castelo-Gomez, J M; Roldan-Gomez, J; Martinez, J L

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Univ Castilla La Mancha, Inst Res Informat i3a Albacete, Albacete, Spain - Author

Abstract

Despite all the efforts made by the scientific community in terms of computer security, buffer overflow vulnerabilities continue being the biggest security flaw in applications, since they compromise the security of the system through memory corruption. To tackle this problem, there are different techniques based on the binary analysis of the application in question. With this objective in mind, the present paper proposes an algorithm based on the dynamic instrumentation of binaries, that is, dynamic local variables belonging to the functions of the program are detected, and a check is performed to see whether there is an overflow of memory between them. The results obtained show how the proposed algorithm is able to detect buffer overflow errors in the stack frames of a function.

Keywords

Buffer overflowBugsDynamic binary instrumentatioDynamic binary instrumentationVulnerabilities

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal Of Computer Virology And Hacking Techniques due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2020, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category . Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-07:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 2

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From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-07:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 2.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 2 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).