Auditing buffer overflow vulnerabilities using program analysis and data mining techniques

• Main Author: Bindu Madhavi Padmanabhuni
• Other Authors: Tan Hee Beng Kuan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/68915
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis presents approaches for auditing Buffer Overflow (BO) vulnerabilities, one of the highly prevalent and dangerous vulnerabilities from source code as well as x86 executables. While many approaches exist in literature that help in mitigating them, continuous presence of BO bugs in vulnerab...