Wed 17 Jul 2019 16:40 - 17:00 at Mancy - Program Analysis 1 Chair(s): Yannis Smaragdakis

Static analyses make the increasingly tenuous assumption that all source code is available for analysis; for example, large libraries often call into native code that cannot be analyzed. We propose a points-to analysis that initially makes optimistic assumptions about missing code, and then inserts runtime checks that report counterexamples to these assumptions that occur during execution. Our approach guarantees eventual soundness, which combines two guarantees: (i) the runtime checks are guaranteed to catch the first counterexample that occurs during any execution, in which case execution can be terminated to prevent harm, and (ii) only finitely many counterexamples ever occur, implying that the static analysis eventually becomes statically sound with respect to all remaining executions. We implement Optix, an eventually sound points-to analysis for Android apps, where the Android framework is missing. We show that the runtime checks added by Optix incur low overhead on real programs, and demonstrate how Optix improves a client information flow analysis for detecting Android malware.

Wed 17 Jul

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15:40 - 17:00
Program Analysis 1Research Papers at Mancy
Chair(s): Yannis Smaragdakis University of Athens
15:40
20m
Research paper
Static Analysis for Asynchronous JavaScript Programs
Research Papers
Thodoris Sotiropoulos Athens University of Economics and Business, Ben Livshits Imperial College London, UK
DOI
16:00
20m
Research paper
A Program Logic for First-Order Encapsulated WebAssembly
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Conrad Watt University of Cambridge, Petar Maksimović Imperial College London, UK and Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia, Neel Krishnaswami Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Philippa Gardner Imperial College London
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16:20
20m
Research paper
Garbage-free Abstract Interpretation through Abstract Reference Counting
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Noah Van Es Sofware Languages Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Quentin Stiévenart Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DOI
16:40
20m
Research paper
Eventually Sound Points-To Analysis with Specifications
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Osbert Bastani University of Pennsylvania, Rahul Sharma Microsoft Research, Lazaro Clapp Stanford University, Saswat Anand Stanford University, Alex Aiken Stanford University
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