Autodafe: An Act of Software Torture
| Stream: | Autodafe: An Act of Software Torture |
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| Datum: | 28.12.2005 |
| Autor: | Martin Vuagnoux |
| Beschreibung: | Automated vulnerability searching tools have led to a dramatic increase of the rate at which such flaws are discovered. One particular searching technique is fault injection – i.e. insertion of random data into input files, buffers or protocol packets, combined with a systematic monitoring of memory violations. Even if these tools allow to uncover a lot of vulnerabilities, they are still very primitive; despite their poor efficiency, they are useful because of the very high density of such vulnerabilities in modern software. |