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Testing C Programs for Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Export

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Security vulnerabilities often result from buffer overflows. A testing technique that instruments programs with code that keeps track of memory buffers, and checks arguments to functions to determine if they satisfy certain conditions, warns when a buffer overflow may occur. It does so when executed with "normal" test data as opposed to test data designed to trigger buffer overflows. A tool using this method was developed and evaluated by testing three widely used, open source software...


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