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ISSA
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Emerging Framework for The Evaluation of Open Source Security Tools
The drive from the South African Government towards the adoption of open source software across all platforms, incurred a number of research and development questions. The open so...
Elmarie Biermann, Jan Mentz
ECEASST
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Security Evaluation and Hardening of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Abstract: Recently, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has emerged as an alternative to Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software. Now, FOSS is perceived as a viable long-term sol...
Robert Charpentier, Mourad Debbabi, Dima Alhadidi,...
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Testing static analysis tools using exploitable buffer overflows from open source code
Five modern static analysis tools (ARCHER, BOON, PolySpace C Verifier, Splint, and UNO) were evaluated using source code examples containing 14 exploitable buffer overflow vulnera...
Misha Zitser, Richard Lippmann, Tim Leek
CCS
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Effect of static analysis tools on software security: preliminary investigation
Static analysis tools can handle large-scale software and find thousands of defects. But do they improve software security? We evaluate the effect of static analysis tool use on s...
Vadim Okun, William F. Guthrie, Romain Gaucher, Pa...
PST
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Model-Checking for Software Vulnerabilities Detection with Multi-Language Support
In this paper we develop a security verification framework for open source software with a multi-language support. We base our approach on the GCC compiler which is considered as ...
Rachid Hadjidj, Xiaochun Yang, Syrine Tlili, Moura...