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One of the key challenges for computer security is the problem of software security: how to build software that is free of implementation vulnerabilities. In this talk, I will present experience with pushdown model checking for software security. First, I will survey simple methods for pushdown model checking, and I will introduce MOPS, a tool for pushdown model checking of C programs. Then, I will show many security properties of interest may be encoded as temporal safety properties that are well-suited to analysis with model checking. I will report on our experience applying MOPS to tens of millions of lines of C code. Finally, I will discuss some possible directions for future research.
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Wagner, D. (2005). Pushdown Model Checking for Security. In: Godefroid, P. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3639. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11537328_1
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