We discuss the challenges faced by bytecode analyzers designed for code verification compared to similar analyzers for source code. While a bytecode-level analysis brings many simplifications, eg, ...

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Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...

Abstract: Branch coverage (BC) is a widely used test criterion that is supported by many tools. Although textbooks and the research literature agree on a standard definition for BC tools measure BC in ...

Abstract: Traditional static taint analysis based on bytecode analysis such as GadgetInspector to detect deserialization vulnerabilities always faced precision problems. For example, missing the fact ...

Newly discovered campaign takes advantage of the fact that most vulnerability scanning tools don't read compiled open-source software. Attackers who are targeting open-source package repositories like ...

A security vendor's recent analysis of Rockwell Automation's programmable logic controller (PLC) platform has uncovered two serious vulnerabilities that give attackers a way to modify automation ...

Microsoft on Monday launched an open source project to make a Linux kernel tool known as eBPF, short for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, work on Windows. Inspired by network packet filtering and ...