We describe an methodology for testing a software system for possible security flaws. Based on the observation that most security flaws are caused by the program’s inappropria...
In this paper we explore the problem of creating vulnerability signatures. A vulnerability signature matches all exploits of a given vulnerability, even polymorphic or metamorphic...
David Brumley, James Newsome, Dawn Xiaodong Song, ...
In today’s large and complex network scenario vulnerability scanners play a major role from security perspective by proactively identifying the known security problems or vulner...
GEGICK, MICHAEL CHARLES. Predicting Attack-prone Components with Source Code Static Analyzers. (Under the direction of Laurie Williams). No single vulnerability detection techniqu...
We present various techniques for improving the time and space efficiency of symbolic model checking for system requirements specified as synchronous finite state machines. We use...
William Chan, Richard J. Anderson, Paul Beame, Dav...