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Martin C. Rinard.
Rittenhouse, Nathan (Nathan W.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2014-11-24T18:41:00Z
2014-11-24T18:41:00Z
2014
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91865
894354417
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-68).
We present a new technique and system, DIODE, for automatically generating inputs that trigger overflows at memory allocation sites. DIODE is designed to identify relevant sanity checks that inputs must satisfy to trigger overflows at target memory allocation sites, then generate inputs that satisfy these sanity checks to successfully trigger the overflow. DIODE works with off-the-shelf, production x86 binaries. Our results show that, for our benchmark set of applications, for every target memory allocation site, either 1) DIODE is able to generate an input that triggers an overflow at that site or 2) there is no input that would trigger an overflow for the observed target expression at that site.
by Nathan Rittenhouse.
M.Eng.
68 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Integer overflow discovery using goal-directed conditional branch enforcement
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