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Statically detecting use after free on binary code

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We present GUEB a static tool detecting Use after Free vulnerabilities on disassembled code. This tool has been evaluated on a real vulnerability in the ProFTPD application (CVE-2011-4130).

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  1. In C for a better understanding, but our analysis operates at the assembly level.

  2. This is the case for instance with the libc.

  3. http://www.mathworks.fr/products/polyspace.

  4. Making our analysis context-sensitive, but not applicable to recursive calls.

  5. A better approximation could be provided if it is required for the exploitability analysis.

  6. https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/index.shtml.

  7. http://www.zynamics.com/binnavi.html.

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  1. Vérimag Laboratoy, University of Grenoble, Centre Équation, 2 Avenue de Vignate, Gières, 38610, France

    Josselin Feist, Laurent Mounier & Marie-Laure Potet

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Correspondence to Laurent Mounier.

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This work was partially funded by the Binsec project (ANR-12-INSE-0002-01).

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Feist, J., Mounier, L. & Potet, ML. Statically detecting use after free on binary code. J Comput Virol Hack Tech 10, 211–217 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-014-0203-1

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