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Program Taint Analysis

Program Taint Analysis is a dynamic program analysis technique that tracks the flow of untrusted input data through a software system to identify potential security vulnerabilities by marking tainted data and monitoring its improper usage in security-sensitive operations.

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8.5K

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402

Authors

121

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2017–2026

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Taint Analysis

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Publications

125

Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software

James Newsome, Dawn Song · Figshare · 2018 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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LIFT: A Low-Overhead Practical Information Flow Tracking System for Detecting Security Attacks

Feng Qin, Cheng Wang, Zhenmin Li et al. · Proceedings of the ... annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture/Proceedings of the annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture · 2006 · 421 citations

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TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection

Tielei Wang, Tao Wei, Guofei Gu et al. · 2010 · 387 citations

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SAGE: Whitebox Fuzzing for Security Testing

Patrice Godefroid, Michael Y. Levin, Dávid Molnár · Queue · 2012 · 316 citations · Full text

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Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink et al. · 2009 · 307 citations

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Authors

402

  1. SM
    Stephen McCamant

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    5 publications · 508 citations

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  2. JB
    Jonathan Bell

    Columbia University, United States

    4 publications · 108 citations

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  3. EB
    Eric Bodden

    Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

    4 publications · 260 citations

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  4. JS
    Jiasu Sun

    Peking University, China

    3 publications · 55 citations

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  5. AA
    Alex Aiken

    Stanford University, United States

    3 publications · 77 citations

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Institutions

121

  1. Peking University

    Beijing, China

    7 h-index

    25 publications

    1.9K citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    3.3K citations

  3. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    202 citations

  4. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    840 citations

  5. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    921 citations

  6. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    203 citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    562 citations

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Venues

  1. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    5 publications · 180 citations

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 5 publications · 207 citations

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  3. VU Research Portal

    Repository · 2 publications · 226 citations

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  4. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review

    2 publications · 176 citations

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  5. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 2 publications · 58 citations

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