String Analysis for Software Verification and Security

This is the first existing book focusing on string analysis

Discusses how string analysis techniques work and how they can be applied to vulnerability detection in modern software applications

This book can be used as a textbook for a course on string analysis, or as a supplementary book for a course on vulnerability detection

This is the first existing book focusing on string analysis Discusses how string analysis techniques work and how they can be applied to vulnerability detection in modern software applications This book can be used as a textbook for a course on string analysis, or as a supplementary book for a course on vulnerability detection

Inhalt
1 Introduction: String Manipulating Programs and Difficulty of Their Analysis.- 2 String Manipulating Programs and Difficulty of Their Analysis.- 3 State Space Exploration.- 4 Automata Based String Analysis.- 5 Relational String Analysis.- 6 Abstraction and Approximation.- 7 Constraint-based String Analysis.- 8 Vulnerability Detection and Sanitization Synthesis.- 9 Differential String Analysis and Repair.- 10 Tools.- 11 A Brief Survey of Related Work.- 12 Conclusions.