Mining for Mutation Operators for Reduction of Information Flow Control Violations
The unintentional flow of confidential data to unauthorised users is a serious software security vulnerability. Detection and repair of such errors is a non-trivial task that has been worked on by the security community for many years. More recently, dynamic approaches, such as HyperGI, have been introduced that use hypertesting and genetic improvement to not only detect, but also provide a patch that reduces such information flow control violations. However, empirical studies done so far have used mostly generic mutation operators, potentially limiting the strength of this approach. In this new ideas paper we mine the National Vulnerabilities Database to find repairs of information leaks. Of 636 issues initially identified, we found 73 fixes that relate to information leaks and come with open source patches to the code. From these, we identified 10 types of mutation operators with potential to fix such issues. Six of these have so far never been used to fix information leaks via automated mutation to the code. We propose that these could help improve effectiveness of tools using the HyperGI approach.
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10:30 - 12:00 | Vulnerability and security2NIER Track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Magnoila Chair(s): Yiming Tang Rochester Institute of Technology | ||
10:30 15mTalk | Coding-PTMs: How to Find Optimal Code Pre-trained Models for Code Embedding in Vulnerability Detection? Research Papers Yu Zhao , Lina Gong Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautic, Zhiqiu Huang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Yongwei Wang Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study and College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Mingqiang Wei School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fei Wu College of Computer Science and Technology in Zhejiang University | ||
10:45 15mTalk | STASE: Static Analysis Guided Symbolic Execution for UEFI Vulnerability Signature Generation Research Papers Md Shafiuzzaman University of California at Santa Barbara, Achintya Desai University of California Santa Barbara, Laboni Sarker University of California at Santa Barbara, Tevfik Bultan University of California at Santa Barbara | ||
11:00 15mTalk | Effective Vulnerable Function Identification based on CVE Description Empowered by Large Language Models Research Papers Yulun Wu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Ming Wen Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zeliang Yu Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiaochen Guo Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology | ||
11:15 15mTalk | COBRA: Interaction-Aware Bytecode-Level Vulnerability Detector for Smart Contracts Research Papers Wenkai Li Hainan University, Xiaoqi Li Hainan University, Zongwei Li Hainan University, Yuqing Zhang University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhongguancun Laboratory Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached | ||
11:30 10mTalk | MADE-WIC: Multiple Annotated Datasets for Exploring Weaknesses In Code Tool Demonstrations Moritz Mock Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Jorge Melegati Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Max Kretschmann Hamburg University of Technology, Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra Hamburg University of Technology, Barbara Russo Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy DOI Pre-print | ||
11:40 10mTalk | The Software Genome Project: Unraveling Software Through Genetic Principles NIER Track Yueming Wu Nanyang Technological University, Chengwei Liu Nanyang Technological University, Zhengzi Xu Nanyang Technological University; Imperial Global Singapore, Lyuye Zhang Nanyang Technological University, Yiran Zhang , Zhu Zhiling Zhejiang University of Technology, Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University | ||
11:50 10mTalk | Mining for Mutation Operators for Reduction of Information Flow Control Violations NIER Track Ilya Kosorukov University College London, Daniel Blackwell University College London, David Clark University College London, Myra Cohen Iowa State University, Justyna Petke University College London | ||