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ICSE 2020
Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020
Thu 9 Jul 2020 00:36 - 00:48 at Baekje - P13-Security Chair(s): Joshua Garcia

CPU cache is limited but crucial storage on modern processor whereas the cache timing side-channel could indirectly leak data through the measurable timing variance. Speculative execution, a reason for the variance and a vital optimization in modern CPUs, can engender severe detriment to deliberate branch mispredictions. Though static analysis can qualitatively verify the timing-leakage-free property under speculative execution, it is incapable of producing endorsements including inputs and speculated flows to diagnose leaks in depth. This work proposes a new approach, Speculative symbolic Execution, for precisely validating cache timing leaks introduced by speculative execution. Generally, given a program with sensitive inputs (leakage-free in non-speculative execution), our method systematically explores the program state space. Meanwhile, it models speculative behavior at conditional branches and accumulates the cache side effects along with subsequent execution. Based on the dynamic exploration and a specified cache model, we construct leak conditions for memory accesses and conduct a constraint-solving based cache behavior analysis to generate leak witnesses. We have implemented our method in a tool named SpecuSym on KLEE, and evaluated it against 14 open-source benchmarks. Experiments show that SpecuSym successfully identified leaks in 6 programs on four different caches and eliminated false positives in 2 programs reported by recent work.

Thu 9 Jul

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00:00 - 01:00
P13-SecurityTechnical Papers / Software Engineering in Practice at Baekje
Chair(s): Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine
00:00
12m
Talk
Burn After Reading: A Shadow Stack with Microsecond-level Runtime Rerandomization for Protecting Return AddressesTechnicalArtifact Available
Technical Papers
Changwei Zou UNSW Sydney, Jingling Xue UNSW Sydney
00:12
12m
Talk
Automated Identification of Libraries from Vulnerability DataSEIP
Software Engineering in Practice
Chen Yang Veracode, Inc., Andrew Santosa Veracode, Inc., Asankhaya Sharma Veracode, Inc., David Lo Singapore Management University
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00:24
12m
Talk
Unsuccessful Story about Few Shot Malware-Family Classification and Siamese Network to the RescueTechnical
Technical Papers
Yude Bai Tianjin University, Zhenchang Xing Australia National University, Xiaohong Li TianJin University, Zhiyong Feng Tianjin University, Duoyuan Ma Tianjin University
00:36
12m
Talk
SpecuSym: Speculative Symbolic Execution for Cache Timing Leak DetectionTechnical
Technical Papers
Shengjian Guo Baidu X-Lab, Yueqi Chen The Pennsylvania State University, Peng Li Baidu X-Lab, Yueqiang Cheng Baidu Security, Huibo Wang Baidu X-Lab, Meng Wu Ant Financial, Zhiqiang Zuo Nanjing University, China
00:48
12m
Talk
Building and Maintaining a Third-Party Library Supply Chain for Productive and Secure SGX Enclave DevelopmentSEIP
Software Engineering in Practice
Pei Wang Baidu X-Lab, Yu Ding Baidu X-Lab, Mingshen Sun Baidu X-Lab, Huibo Wang Baidu X-Lab, Tongxin Li Baidu X-Lab, Rundong Zhou Baidu X-Lab, Zhaofeng Chen , Yiming Jing Baidu X-Lab