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2017 | Supplement | Chapter

Analysis of Potential Code Vulnerabilities Involving Overlapping Instructions

Authors : Loui Al Sardy, Tong Tang, Marc Spisländer, Francesca Saglietti

Published in: Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This article proposes approaches supporting the analysis of code vulnerabilities based on overlapping machine instructions of variable length. For the purpose of focusing the search for potential malicious code it is suggested to apply first disassembling techniques allowing for a restriction of potentially exploitable memory space. Successively, testing based on heuristic optimization may be applied in order to evaluate dynamically the practicality of vulnerability exploitation.

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Metadata
Title
Analysis of Potential Code Vulnerabilities Involving Overlapping Instructions
Authors
Loui Al Sardy
Tong Tang
Marc Spisländer
Francesca Saglietti
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66283-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-66284-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66284-8_10

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