Practical static analysis for inference of security-related program properties

We present a static analysis framework for inference of security-related program properties. Within this framework we design and implement ownership, immutability and information flow inference analyses for Java. We perform empirical investigation on a set of Java components, and on a set of established security benchmarks. The results indicate that the analyses are practical and precise, and therefore can be integrated in program comprehension tools that support reasoning about software security and software quality.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: IWPC
• Authors: Yin Liu, Ana Milanova
• Keywords: Information flow Inference, IWPC 2009, Security-related Program Properties, Software Engineering, Static Analysis Framework