Model Checking x86 Executables with CodeSurfer/x86 and WPDS++
Gogul Balakrishnan and Thomas W. Reps and Nicholas Kidd and Akash Lal and Junghee Lim and David Melski and Radu Gruian and Suan Hsi Yong and Chi-Hua Chen and Tim Teitelbaum
This paper presents a toolset for model checking x86 executables. The members of the toolset are CodeSurfer/x86, WPDS++, and the Path Inspector. CodeSurfer/x86 is used to extract a model from an executable in the form of a weighted pushdown system. WPDS++ is a library for answering generalized reachability queries on weighted pushdown systems. The Path Inspector is a software model checker built on top of CodeSurfer and WPDS++ that supports safety queries about the program's possible control configurations.
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