Vulnerability assessment, especially exploitability assessment, is important for both defenders and attackers. Automated exploit generation (AEG) is an important way to assess the exploitability of vulnerabilities. However, AEG is an open challenge. In some cases, the given proof-of-concept (PoC) input, which triggers the vulnerability, could exercise a crashing path but could not enter an exploitable program state. In this talk the speaker will introduce a solution Revery to this specific challenge.
Chao Zhang
Dr. Chao Zhang is an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University. He was a member of the CTF team Blue-Lotus and now the coach. His research interest lies in system and software security, especially in vulnerability analysis. His automated vulnerability detection solutions have found over 200 CVE vulnerabilities. He co-led a team CodeJitsu from UC Berkeley and built an automated system Glactica which did excellently in the Cyber Grand Challenge launched by DARPA.