Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Static analysis designers must carefully balance precision and efficiency. In our experience, many static analysis tools are built around an elegant, core algorithm, but that alg...
Yit Phang Khoo, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Jeffrey S. Fos...
tic analysis tools based on abstraction are sound but not complete. Several practical static analysis tools are heuristic in nature —they are neither sound nor complete, but have...
Bug-checking tools have been used with some success in recent years to find bugs in software. For finding bugs that can cause security vulnerabilities, bug checking tools requir...
Detection of malicious software (malware) by the use of static signatures is often criticized for being overly simplistic. Available methods of obfuscating code (so-called metamor...