MemLock: Memory usage guided fuzzing

• Main Authors: WEN, Cheng, WANG, Haijun, LI, Yuekang, QIN, Shengchao, LIU, Yang, XU, Zhiwu, CHEN, Hongxu, Xiaofei XIE, PU, Geguang, LIU, Ting
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Fuzz Testing; Software Vulnerability; Memory Consumption; OS and Networks; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7081; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8084/viewcontent/3377811.3380396.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Uncontrolled memory consumption is a kind of critical software security weaknesses. It can also become a security-critical vulnerability when attackers can take control of the input to consume a large amount of memory and launch a Denial-of-Service attack. However, detecting such vulnerability is ch...