NDLI: High-Coverage Security Testing for Windows Kernel Drivers

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Tao Ni Zhongxu Yin Qiang Wei QingXian Wang
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In Windows kernel drivers, different function paths will be called according to the DeviceIoControlCode parameter in DeviceIoControl request. In order to achieve high-coverage security testing of these function paths, a new testing method using symbolic testing is proposed in this paper. With the automatic detection of Dispatch routine, symbolic testing is used to analyse the Dispatch function, walk through all supported function paths and get all DeviceIoControlCodes and check constraints. More specific test cases are generated with the guide of the codes and constraints. To compare the coverage of function paths, drivers of six famous security software are tested. Traditional testing method performs an average of 35% coverage, while ours performs 90%. Our tool discovers a previously-undiscovered priviledge escalation vulnerability of BitDefender2012 and some denial-of-service vulnerabilities, which prove the validity of our method.
Starting Page	905
Ending Page	908
File Size	659861
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467330930
DOI	10.1109/MINES.2012.117
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-11-02
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Algorithm design and analysis Performance evaluation High-coverage Kernel drivers Security testing Kernel Computer crime Symbolic testing Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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