#arcus Articles


Differentiating ARCUS (USENIX'21) and Bunkerbuster (CCS'21)

I've received several questions recently about two papers I published in 2021, one at USENIX (which I'll refer to here as ARCUS) and another at CCS (which I'll refer to as Bunkerbuster). You can find these papers at the USENIX and CCS conference websites, respectively. The question people have is …


Case Study: Security Analysis of Halibut

Over the past year I've been studying memory corruption vulnerabilities in Linux C/C++ programs, culminating in the open sourcing of a framework called ARCUS to find and explain them automatically using a combination of dynamic tracing and symbolic analysis. My work has led to two academic conference publications, one …