Sound input filter generation for integer overflow errors

Fan Long, Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, Deokhwan Kim, Martin Rinard
2014 Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages - POPL '14  
We present a system, SIFT, for generating input filters that nullify integer overflow errors associated with critical program sites such as memory allocation or block copy sites. SIFT uses a static program analysis to generate filters that discard inputs that may trigger integer overflow errors in the computations of the sizes of allocated memory blocks or the number of copied bytes in block copy operations. The generated filters are sound -if an input passes the filter, it will not trigger an
more » ... nteger overflow error for any analyzed site. Our results show that SIFT successfully analyzes (and therefore generates sound input filters for) 52 out of 58 memory allocation and block memory copy sites in analyzed input processing modules from five applications (VLC, Dillo, Swfdec, Swftools, and GIMP). These nullified errors include six known integer overflow vulnerabilities. Our results also show that applying these filters to 62895 real-world inputs produces no false positives. The analysis and filter generation times are all less than a second. 2013/8/5
doi:10.1145/2535838.2535888 dblp:conf/popl/LongSKR14 fatcat:ojat52sdfrgibo5ilba6xklstq