Presentation 2021-01-26
Detection of Vulnerability Inducing Code Optimization Based on Binary Code
Yuka Azuma, Nagisa Ishiura,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we propose a method to detect vulnerability inducing code elimination by compiler optimization. It is reported that security codes, which are intended to protect programs against invalid memory accesses or to scrub secret information in memories, can be eliminated by compiler optimization. This paper attempts to detect such code elimination by binary comparison. A pair of binary codes are generated from a given source code and are compared; one is obtained with a typical set of optimization options and the other by suppressing the problematic optimization. Since the two binaries are often too different to reveal the code elimination, comparison is done focusing on specific instructions. When the code elimination is detected, the source code is minimized to identify the code fragment that caused the difference. A detection tool implemented in Perl5 has been run on 5 programs consisting of about 200 to 51400 lines, to detect one case of guard elimination and two cases of dead store elimination.
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Keyword(in English) Software vulnerability / Compiler optimization / Guard elimination / Dead store elimination
Paper # VLD2020-65,CPSY2020-48,RECONF2020-84
Date of Issue 2021-01-18 (VLD, CPSY, RECONF)

Conference Information
Committee CPSY / RECONF / VLD / IPSJ-ARC / IPSJ-SLDM
Conference Date 2021/1/25(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) FPGA Applications, etc.
Chair Hidetsugu Irie(Univ. of Tokyo) / Yuichiro Shibata(Nagasaki Univ.) / Daisuke Fukuda(Fujitsu Labs.) / Hiroshi Inoue(Kyushu Univ.) / Yuichi Nakamura(NEC)
Vice Chair Michihiro Koibuchi(NII) / Kota Nakajima(Fujitsu Lab.) / Kentaro Sano(RIKEN) / Yoshiki Yamaguchi(Tsukuba Univ.) / Kazutoshi Kobayashi(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Michihiro Koibuchi(Hokkaido Univ.) / Kota Nakajima(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Kentaro Sano(e-trees.Japan) / Yoshiki Yamaguchi(NEC) / Kazutoshi Kobayashi(Hitachi) / (Osaka Univ.) / (Fujitsu lab.)
Assistant Shugo Ogawa(Hitachi) / Eiji Arima(Univ. of Tokyo) / Hiroki Nakahara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yukitaka Takemura(INTEL) / Takuma Nishimoto(Hitachi)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Computer Systems / Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems / Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Special Interest Group on System Architecture / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Detection of Vulnerability Inducing Code Optimization Based on Binary Code
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Software vulnerability
Keyword(2) Compiler optimization
Keyword(3) Guard elimination
Keyword(4) Dead store elimination
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1st Author's Name Yuka Azuma
1st Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Nagisa Ishiura
2nd Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
Date 2021-01-26
Paper # VLD2020-65,CPSY2020-48,RECONF2020-84
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) VLD-337,CPSY-338,RECONF-339
Page pp.pp.148-153(VLD), pp.148-153(CPSY), pp.148-153(RECONF),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-01-18 (VLD, CPSY, RECONF)