On the Scalability of Static Program Analysis to Detect Vulnerabilities in the Java Platform

Java has been a target for many zero-day exploits in the past years. We investigate one category of vulnerabilities used by many of these exploits. Attackers make use of so called unguarded caller-sensitive methods. While these methods provide features that can be dangerous if used in malicious ways...

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Main Author: Lerch, Johannes
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/5580/1/document.pdf
Lerch, Johannes <http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/view/person/Lerch=3AJohannes=3A=3A.html> : On the Scalability of Static Program Analysis to Detect Vulnerabilities in the Java Platform. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt [Ph.D. Thesis], (2016)