Static analysis tools can handle large-scale software and find thousands of defects. But do they improve software security? We evaluate the effect of static analysis tool use on s...
Vadim Okun, William F. Guthrie, Romain Gaucher, Pa...
This paper addresses the issue of identifying buffer overrun vulnerabilities by statically analyzing C source code. We demonstrate a light-weight analysis based on modeling C stri...
Vinod Ganapathy, Somesh Jha, David Chandler, David...
Many of today’s software applications require a high-level of security, defined by a detailed policy and attained via mechanisms such as role-based access control (RBAC), mandat...
Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal, Laurent Michel, Steven ...
The ubiquity of the Internet connection to desktops has been both boon to business as well as cause for concern for the security of digital assets that may be unknowingly exposed....
Models based on system calls are a popular and common approach to characterize the run-time behavior of programs. For example, system calls are used by intrusion detection systems...
Andrea Lanzi, Davide Balzarotti, Christopher Krueg...