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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2011
Applicants:
George Candea, Saint-Sulpice, CH;
Vitaly Chipounov, Renens, CH;
Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Renens, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3664 (2013.01); G06F 9/45504 (2013.01); G06F 9/45516 (2013.01); G06F 11/3612 (2013.01); G06F 11/3636 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method for in-vivo multi-path analysis and testing of binary software including binary device drivers is disclosed. The system and method may be used to test a binary software system and may comprise a virtual machine, a symbolic execution engine and a modular plugin architecture. In addition, a device driver testing system is also disclosed wherein symbolic execution may be used to explore the device driver's execution paths and check for device driver behavior.