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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tong Chen, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Alper Buyuktosunoglu, White Plains, NY (US);
Richard H. Boivie, Monroe, CT (US);
Gururaj Saileshwar, Atlanta, GA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system and apparatus for protecting a program from making out of bounds memory references, including determining whether an instruction makes out of bound references where the instruction that loads data from or stores data to a buffer refers to addresses that are outside the bounds of the buffer, and responsive to the determining that the instruction refers to addresses that are partially out of bounds, changing an execution of the load or the store including modifying the starting address specified in the instruction, a length of data specified in the instruction, or a value for an out of bounds reference to load or store data that is within the bounds of the buffer.