Tag-Protector: An Effective and Dynamic Detection of Illegal Memory Accesses through Compile Time Code Instrumentation

Table 1

Effectiveness of the proposed tag-protection solution on different applications from BugBench benchmark suite.

Application	Lines of code (LoC)	Bug location	Bug type	Detected
bc-1.06	14.4k	storage.c:177	Heap overflow	Yes
bc-1.06	14.4k	util.c:577	Heap overflow	Yes
bc-1.06	14.4k	bc.c:1425	Global overflow	Yes
gzip-1.2.4	8.1k	gzip.c:457	Global overflow	Yes
man-1.5h1	4.1k	man.c:978	Global overflow	Yes
ncompress	1.9k	compress.c:896	Stack overflow	Yes
polymorph-0.40	0.7k	polymorph.c:120	Global overflow	Yes
polymorph-0.40	0.7k	polymorph.c:193	Stack overflow	Yes
squid-2.3	93.5k	ftp.c:1024	Heap overflow	Yes