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- Patent Title: Method for detecting vulnerabilities in software
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Application No.: US17157559Application Date: 2021-01-25
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Publication No.: US11669623B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Hans-Christian Esperer , Yun Ding , Thomas Kastner , Markus Schumacher
- Applicant: VIRTUAL FORGE GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Heidelberg
- Assignee: VIRTUAL FORGE GmbH
- Current Assignee: VIRTUAL FORGE GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Heidelberg
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Main IPC: G06F21/57
- IPC: G06F21/57 ; G06F8/41 ; G06F21/53

Abstract:
A method, an apparatus, and a storage medium for detecting vulnerabilities in software to protect a computer system from security and compliance breaches are provided. The method includes providing a ruleset code declaring programming interfaces of a target framework and including rules that define an admissible execution context when invoking the programming interfaces, providing a source code to be scanned for vulnerabilities; compiling the source code into a first execution code having additional instructions inserted to facilitate tracking of an actual execution context of the source code, compiling the ruleset code into a second execution code that can be executed together with the first execution code, executing the first execution code within an virtual machine and passing calls of the programming interfaces to the second execution code, and detecting a software vulnerability when the actual execution context disagrees with the admissible execution context.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210173941A1 METHOD FOR DETECTING VULNERABILITIES IN SOFTWARE Public/Granted day:2021-06-10
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