Tue 18 Jul 2023 14:45 - 15:00 at Smith Classroom (Gates G10) - ISSTA 4: Static Analysis Chair(s): Christian Hammer

Although existing techniques have proposed automated approaches to alleviate the path explosion problem of symbolic execution, users still need to optimize symbolic execution by applying various searching strategies carefully. As existing approaches mainly support only coarse-grained global searching strategies, they cannot efficiently traverse through complex code structures. In this paper, we propose Eunomia, a symbolic execution technique that supports fine-grained search with local domain knowledge. Eunomia uses Aes, a DSL that lets users specify local searching strategies for different parts of the program. Eunomia also isolates the context of variables for different local searching strategies, avoiding conflicts. We implement Eunomia for WebAssembly, which can analyze applications written in various languages. Eunomia is the first symbolic execution engine that supports the full features of WebAssembly. We evaluate Eunomia with a microbenchmark suite and six real-world applications. Our evaluation shows that Eunomia improves bug detection by up to three orders of magnitude. We also conduct a user study that shows the benefits of using Aes. Moreover, Eunomia verifies six known bugs and detects two new zero-day bugs in Collections-C.

Tue 18 Jul

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13:30 - 15:00
ISSTA 4: Static AnalysisTechnical Papers at Smith Classroom (Gates G10)
Chair(s): Christian Hammer University of Passau
13:30
15m
Talk
Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-Based Embedded Firmware with SSE-Based On-Demand Alias Analysis
Technical Papers
Kai Cheng Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences; Sangfor Technologies, Yaowen Zheng Nanyang Technological University, Tao Liu Pennsylvania State University, Le Guan University of Georgia, Peng Liu Pennsylvania State University, Hong Li Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hongsong Zhu Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kejiang Ye Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Limin Sun Institute of Information Engineering at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
DOI
13:45
15m
Talk
Beware of the Unexpected: Bimodal Taint AnalysisACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper
Technical Papers
Yiu Wai Chow University of Stuttgart, Max Schaefer GitHub, Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart
DOI
14:00
15m
Talk
OCFI: Make Function Entry Identification Hard Again
Technical Papers
Chengbin Pang Nanjing University, Tiantai Zhang Nanjing University, Xuelan Xu Nanjing University, Linzhang Wang Nanjing University, Bing Mao Nanjing University
DOI
14:15
15m
Talk
Tai-e: A Developer-Friendly Static Analysis Framework for Java by Harnessing the Good Designs of Classics
Technical Papers
Tian Tan Nanjing University, Yue Li Nanjing University
DOI Pre-print
14:30
15m
Talk
That’s a Tough Call: Studying the Challenges of Call Graph Construction for WebAssemblyACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact
Technical Papers
Daniel Lehmann University of Stuttgart, Michelle Thalakottur Northeastern University, Frank Tip Northeastern University, Michael Pradel University of Stuttgart
DOI
14:45
15m
Talk
Eunomia: Enabling User-Specified Fine-Grained Search in Symbolically Executing WebAssembly BinariesACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper
Technical Papers
Ningyu He Peking University, Zhehao Zhao Peking University, Jikai Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Yubin Hu Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Shengjian (Daniel) Guo Baidu Security, Haoyu Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Guangtai Liang Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies, Ding Li Peking University, Xiangqun Chen Peking University, Yao Guo Peking University
DOI