Completeness in abstract interpretation is a well-known property, which ensures that the abstract framework does not lose information during the abstraction process, with respect to the property of interest. Completeness has been never taken into account for existing string abstract domains, due to the fact that it is difficult to prove it formally. However, the effort is fully justified when dealing with string analysis, which is a key issue to guarantee security properties in many software systems, in particular for JavaScript programs where poorly managed string manipulating code often leads to significant security flaws. In this paper, we address completeness for the main JavaScript-specific string abstract domains, we provide suitable refinements of them, and we discuss the benefits of guaranteeing completeness in the context of abstract-interpretation based string analysis of dynamic languages.

Completeness of Abstract Domains for String Analysis of JavaScript Programs

Arceri V.
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Olliaro M.;Cortesi A.;
2019-01-01

Abstract

Completeness in abstract interpretation is a well-known property, which ensures that the abstract framework does not lose information during the abstraction process, with respect to the property of interest. Completeness has been never taken into account for existing string abstract domains, due to the fact that it is difficult to prove it formally. However, the effort is fully justified when dealing with string analysis, which is a key issue to guarantee security properties in many software systems, in particular for JavaScript programs where poorly managed string manipulating code often leads to significant security flaws. In this paper, we address completeness for the main JavaScript-specific string abstract domains, we provide suitable refinements of them, and we discuss the benefits of guaranteeing completeness in the context of abstract-interpretation based string analysis of dynamic languages.
2019
Theoretical Aspects of Computing
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