Secure Application Development with Aspect-Oriented Programming

This talk introduces aspect-oriented programming and its possible applications for enhancing application security. Specifically, techniques for improving memory safety in C and C++ applications using aspects are evaluated. Various approaches for tracking the application's allocation behavior are compared using real-world applications on Windows and GNU/Linux systems. While the performance and memory safety guarantees of Java, C# and other memory-safe languages remain superior, aspects can be used to prevent a range of well-known exploitation techniques at reasonable cost.