scholarly journals Finding 1-Day Vulnerabilities in Trusted Applications using Selective Symbolic Execution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Busch ◽  
Kalle Dirsch
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Execution

Multiplex symbolic execution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufeng Zhang ◽  
Zhenbang Chen ◽  
Ziqi Shuai ◽  
Tianqi Zhang ◽  
Kenli Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Execution

Exploiting Symbolic Execution to Accelerate Deterministic Databases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shady Issa ◽  
Miguel Viegas ◽  
Pedro Raminhas ◽  
Nuno Machado ◽  
Miguel Matos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Execution

Machine learning steered symbolic execution framework for complex software code

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Bu ◽  
Yongjuan Liang ◽  
Zhunyi Xie ◽  
Hong Qian ◽  
Yi-Qi Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Symbolic Execution ◽  
Software Code

Automatic Vulnerability Detection in Embedded Devices and Firmware

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-42
Author(s):  
Abdullah Qasem ◽  
Paria Shirani ◽  
Mourad Debbabi ◽  
Lingyu Wang ◽  
Bernard Lebel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Symbolic Execution ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Embedded Devices ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Hybrid Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the era of the internet of things (IoT), software-enabled inter-connected devices are of paramount importance. The embedded systems are very frequently used in both security and privacy-sensitive applications. However, the underlying software (a.k.a. firmware) very often suffers from a wide range of security vulnerabilities, mainly due to their outdated systems or reusing existing vulnerable libraries; which is evident by the surprising rise in the number of attacks against embedded systems. Therefore, to protect those embedded systems, detecting the presence of vulnerabilities in the large pool of embedded devices and their firmware plays a vital role. To this end, there exist several approaches to identify and trigger potential vulnerabilities within deployed embedded systems firmware. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art proposals, which detect vulnerabilities in embedded systems and firmware images by employing various analysis techniques, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, symbolic execution, and hybrid approaches. Furthermore, we perform both quantitative and qualitative comparisons among the surveyed approaches. Moreover, we devise taxonomies based on the applications of those approaches, the features used in the literature, and the type of the analysis. Finally, we identify the unresolved challenges and discuss possible future directions in this field of research.

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