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HeapHopper – A Bounded Model Checking Framework For Heap-implementations

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Posted on October 18, 2018

HeapHopper is a bounded model checking framework for Heap-implementations.

Setup

sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential python-dev virtualenvwrapper
git clone https://github.com/angr/heaphopper.git && cd ./heaphopper
mkvirtualenv -ppython2 heaphopper
pip install -e . Required Packages

build-essential python-dev virtualenvwrapper

Required Python-Packages

ana angr cle claripy IPython psutil pyelftools pyyaml

Examples

# Gen zoo of permutations
heaphopper.py gen -c analysis.yaml

# Trace instance make -C tests heaphopper.py trace -c tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/analysis.yaml -b tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin

# Gen PoC
heaphopper.py poc -c tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/analysis.yaml -r tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin-result.yaml -d tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin-desc.yaml -s tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.c -b tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin

# Tests cd tests # Show source cat how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.c # Run tests ./run_tests.py # Show PoC source cat pocs/malloc_non_heap/fastbin_dup.bin/poc_0_0.c # Run PoC ./run_poc.sh pocs/malloc_non_heap/fastbin_dup.bin/bin/poc_0_0.bin

Publication
This work has been published at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium.
You can read the paper here.
Cite:

@inproceedings {heaphopper,
author = {Eckert, Moritz and Bianchi, Antonio and Wang, Ruoyu and Shoshitaishvili, Yan and Kruegel, Christopher and Vigna, Giovanni},
title = {HeapHopper: Bringing Bounded Model Checking to Heap Implementation Security},
booktitle = {27th {USENIX} Security Symposium ({USENIX} Security 18)},
year = {2018},
address = {Baltimore, MD},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/eckert},
publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
}

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