{"title":"What Exactly Determines the Type? Inferring Types with Context","authors":"Ligeng Chen","doi":"10.1109/dsn-s50200.2020.00038","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Closed-source programs lack crucial information vital for code analysis because that information is stripped on compilation to achieve smaller executable size. Variable type information is fundamental in this process. In this paper, we implement a system called CATI (Context-Assisted Type Inference), which locates variables from stripped binaries and infers 19 types from variables. Experiments show that it infers variable type with 71.2% accuracy on unseen binaries.","PeriodicalId":419045,"journal":{"name":"2020 50th Annual IEEE-IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2020 50th Annual IEEE-IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/dsn-s50200.2020.00038","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Closed-source programs lack crucial information vital for code analysis because that information is stripped on compilation to achieve smaller executable size. Variable type information is fundamental in this process. In this paper, we implement a system called CATI (Context-Assisted Type Inference), which locates variables from stripped binaries and infers 19 types from variables. Experiments show that it infers variable type with 71.2% accuracy on unseen binaries.