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This book describes a static analysis that aims to prove the absence of buffer overflows in C programs. ... The book formally describes how program operations are mapped to operations on polyhedra. ... Many concepts presented here carry over to other languages such as Java or assembler. So it will be useful to any researcher and student with an interest in static analysis of real-world programming languages. (Stefan Meyer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1155, 2009)
Introduction.- Technical Background.- Value Range Analysis.- Analysing C.- Soundness.- An abstraction of C.- Combining Value and Content Abstraction.- Combining Pointer and Value-Range Analysis.- Efficiency.- Completeness.- Analysing String Buffers.- Widening with Landmarks.- Further Refinements.- Related Tools.- The Astree Anlyser.- SLAM and ESPX.- CCured.- Other Approaches.- Contributions.- A Semantics for C.- Core C.- Preliminaries.- The Environments.- Concrete Semantics.- Collecting Semantics.- Related Work.- Abstracting Soundly.- Abstract State Space.- An Introductory Example.- Points-To Analysis.- The Points-To Abstract Domain.- Related Work.- Numeric Domains.- The Domain of Convex Polyhedra.- Operations on Polyhedra.- Multiplicity Domain.- Combining the Polyhedral and Multiplicity Domain.- Related Work.- Taming Casting and Wrapping.- Modelling the Wrapping of Integers.- A Language Featuring Finite Integer Arithmetic.- The Syntax of SubC.- The Semantics of SubC.- Polyhedral Analysis of Finite Integers.- Revisiting the Domain of Convex Polyhedra.- Implicit Wrapping of Polyhedral Variables.- Explicit Wrapping of Polyhedral Variables.- Wrapping Variables with a Finite Range.- Wrapping Variables with Infinite Ranges.- Wrapping Several Variables.- An Algorithm for Explicit Wrapping.- An Abstract Semantics for SubC.- Discussion.- Related Work.- Overlapping Memory Accesses and Pointers.- Memory as a Set of Fields.- Memory Layout for Core C.- Access Trees.- Related Work.- Mixing Values and Pointers.- Abstraction Relation.- Abstract Semantics.- Expressions and Simple Assignments.- Assigning Structures.- Casting, &-Operations and Dynamic Memory.- Discussion and Related Work.- Ensuring Efficiency.- Planar Polyhedra.- Operations on Inequalities.- Entailment on Single Inequalities.- Operations on Sets of Inequalities.- Entailment Checking.- Removing Redundancies.- Convex Hull.- Linear Programming and Planar Polyhedra.- Widening Planar Polyhedra.- The TVPI Abstract Domain.- Principles of the TVPI Domain.- Entailment Check.- Convex Hull.- Projection.- Reduced Product Between Bounds and Inequalities.- Incremental Closure.- Approximating General Inequalities.- Linear Programming in the TVPI Domain.- Widening of TVPI Polyhedra.- Related Work.-The Integral TVPI Domain.- The Merit of Z-Polyhedra.- Improving Precision.- Limiting the Growth of Coefficients.- Harvey's Integral Hull Algorithm.- Calculating Cuts Between Two Inequalities.- Integer Hull in the Reduced Product Domain.- Planar Z-Polyhedra and Closure.-Possible Implementations of a Z-TVPI Domain.- Tightening Bpunds Across Projections.- Discussion and Implementation.- Related Work.- Interfacing Analysis and Numeric Domain.- Separating Interval from Relational Information.- Inferring Relevant Fields and Addresses.- Typed Abstract Variables.- Populating the Field Map.- Applying Widening in Fixpoint Calculations.- Improving Precision.- Tracking String Lengths.- Manipulating Implicitly Terminated Strings.- Analysing the String Loop.- Calculating a Fixpoint of the Loop.- Prerequisites for String Buffer Analysis.- Incorporating String Buffer Analysis.- Extending the Abstraction Relation.- Related Work.- Widening with Landmarks.- An Introduction to Widening/Narrowing.- The Limitations of Narrowing.- Improving Widening and Removing Narrowing.- Revisiting the Analysis of String Buffers.- Applying the Widening/Narrowing Approach.- The Rationale Behind Landmarks.- Creating Landmarks for Widening.- Using Landmarks in Widening.- Acquiring Landmarks.- Using Landmarks at a Widening Point.- Extrapolation Operator for Polyhedra.- Related Work.- Combining Points-To and Numeric Analysis.- Boolean Flags in the Numeric Domain.- Incoporating Noolean Flags into Points-To Sets.- Practical Implementation.- Implementation.- Technical Overview at the Anlyser.- Calculating Fixpoints.- Scheduling of Code without Loops.- Scheduling in the Presence of Loops.- Related Work.- Limitations of String Buffer Analysis.- Weaknesses of Tracking First NUL Positions.- Handling Symbolic NUL Positions.- Conclusion and Outlook.- Conclusion.- Outlook.- Replacing the Polyhedral Domain.- Analysing Assembler instead of Core C.- Better Analysis of Dynamically Allocated Memory.- Analysing Floating Point Arithmetic.- Context-Sensitive Analysis.- Appendix A: Core C Example.- References.- Index