Indirect Function Call Target Identification in Software

Indirect function call target identification in software is provided. A set of explicit data flows that pass a function address between software modules of a program is determined using an explicit data dependency analysis. A set of indirect function call targets is generated from results of the exp...

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Main Authors Jamjoom, Hani Talal, Wu, Qiushi, Gu, Zhongshu
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.06.2023
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Indirect function call target identification in software is provided. A set of explicit data flows that pass a function address between software modules of a program is determined using an explicit data dependency analysis. A set of indirect function call targets is generated from results of the explicit data dependency analysis and a dynamic execution analysis of the program. The set of indirect function call targets is expanded by identifying similar target functions based on feature embeddings generated by a graph neural network.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202117644021