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Polyglots
2013
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security - CCS '13
In a heterogeneous system like the web, information is exchanged between components in versatile formats. A new breed of attacks is on the rise that exploit the mismatch between the expected and provided content. This paper focuses on the root cause of a large class of attacks: polyglots. A polyglot is a program that is valid in multiple programming languages. Polyglots allow multiple interpretation of the content, providing a new space of attack vectors. We characterize what constitutes a
doi:10.1145/2508859.2516685
dblp:conf/ccs/MagaziniusRS13
fatcat:utz6emu6z5bejiyinr6iehr4ka