Prateek Saxena

I am a graduate student at UC Berkeley since Fall 2007. I am advised by Dawn Song.
My areas of interest are program analysis, system security, web security and operating systems.
I am furtunate to work with some wonderful people as part of two projects at Berkeley: BitBlaze and Webblaze
Prior to joining Berkeley, I worked with R. Sekar during my MS at Stony Brook University.


Refereed Papers

FLAX: Systematic Discovery of Client-side Validation Vulnerabilities in Rich Web Applications
Prateek Saxena, Steve Hanna, Pongsin Poosankam, Dawn Song.
To appear at 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb 2010.

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Protecting Browsers from Extension Vulnerabilities
Adam Barth, Adrienne Porter Felt, Prateek Saxena, and Aaron Boodman.
To appear at 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb 2010.

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Loop-Extended Symbolic Execution on Binary Programs
Prateek Saxena, Pongsin Poosankam, Stephen McCamant, Dawn Song.
In Proceedings of International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), July 2009.
(Supercedes TR No. UCB/EECS-2009-34, EECS Department UC, Berkeley).

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Document Structure Integrity: A Robust Basis for Cross-site Scripting Defense
Yacin Nadji, Prateek Saxena and Dawn Song.
In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2009

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On the Limits of Information Flow Techniques for Malware Analysis and Containment
Lorenzo Cavallaro, Prateek Saxena, R. Sekar.
In Proceedings of the Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), July 2008.

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Efficient fine-grained binary instrumentation with applications to taint-tracking
Prateek Saxena, R. Sekar, Varun Puranik.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), April 2008.

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BitBlaze: A New Approach to Computer Security via Binary Analysis
Dawn Song, David Brumley, Heng Yin, Juan Caballero, Ivan Jager, Min Gyung Kang, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, Pongsin Poosankam, Prateek Saxena.
In Proc. of International Conference on Information Systems Security (*Invited paper) (ICISS), December 2008.

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Technical Reports

A Practical Technique for Containment of Untrusted Plug-ins
Prateek Saxena, R. Sekar, Mithun Iyer, Varun Puranik

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