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2010
Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Computer systems - EuroSys '10
A complex software system typically has a large number of objects in the memory, holding references to each other to implement an object model. Deciding when the objects should be alive/active is non-trivial, but the decisions can be security-critical. This is especially true for web browsers: if certain browser objects do not disappear when the new page is switched in, basic security properties can be compromised, such as visual integrity, document integrity and memory safety. We refer to
doi:10.1145/1755913.1755942
dblp:conf/eurosys/ChenCC10
fatcat:344hqgejwjbl7fz6o3ps5oc7xu