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ASE 2020
Mon 21 - Fri 25 September 2020 Melbourne, Australia
Thu 24 Sep 2020 16:00 - 16:20 at Koala - Software Security and Trust (3) Chair(s): Julia Lawall

Heap-based overflows are still not completely solved even after decades of research. This paper proposes Prober, a novel system aiming to detect and prevent heap overflows in the production environment. Prober leverages a key observation based on the analysis of dozens of real bugs: all heap overflows are related to arrays. Based on this observation, Prober only focuses on array-related heap objects, instead of all heap objects. Prober utilizes static analysis to label all susceptible call-stacks during the compilation, and then employs the page protection to detect any invalid accesses during the runtime. In addition to this, Prober integrates multiple existing methods together to ensure the efficiency of its detection. Overall, Prober introduces almost negligible performance overhead, with 1.5% on average. Prober not only stops possible attacks on time, but also reports the faulty instructions that could guide bug fixes. Prober is ready for deployment due to its effectiveness and low overhead.

Thu 24 Sep

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16:00 - 17:00
Software Security and Trust (3)Research Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Julia Lawall Inria
16:00
20m
Talk
Prober: Practically Defending Overflows with Page Protection
Research Papers
Hongyu Liu Purdue University, Ruiqin Tian College of William and Mary, Bin Ren College of William and Mary, Tongping Liu University of Massachusetts Amherst
16:20
20m
Talk
MinerRay: Semantics-Aware Analysis for Ever-Evolving Cryptojacking Detection
Research Papers
Alan Romano University at Buffalo, SUNY, Yunhui Zheng IBM Research, Weihang Wang University at Buffalo, SUNY
16:40
20m
Talk
Summary-Based Symbolic Evaluation for Smart ContractsACM Distinguished Paper
Research Papers
Yu Feng University of California, Santa Barbara, Emina Torlak University of Washington, Rastislav Bodík University of Washington