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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Two complementary approaches to detecting vulnerabilities in C programs / Deux approches complémentaires pour la détection de vulnérabilités dans les programmes C

Jimenez, Willy 04 October 2013 (has links)
De manière générale, en informatique, les vulnérabilités logicielles sont définies comme des cas particuliers de fonctionnements non attendus du système menant à la dégradation des propriétés de sécurité ou à la violation de la politique de sécurité. Ces vulnérabilités peuvent être exploitées par des utilisateurs malveillants comme brèches de sécurité. Comme la documentation sur les vulnérabilités n'est pas toujours disponible pour les développeurs et que les outils qu'ils utilisent ne leur permettent pas de les détecter et les éviter, l'industrie du logiciel continue à être paralysée par des failles de sécurité. Nos travaux de recherche s'inscrivent dans le cadre du projet Européen SHIELDS et portent sur les techniques de modélisation et de détection formelles de vulnérabilités. Dans ce domaine, les approches existantes sont peu nombreuses et ne se basent pas toujours sur une modélisation formelle précise des vulnérabilités qu'elles traitent. De plus, les outils de détection sous-jacents produisent un nombre conséquent de faux positifs/négatifs. Notons également qu'il est assez difficile pour un développeur de savoir quelles vulnérabilités sont détectées par chaque outil vu que ces derniers sont très peu documentés. En résumé, les contributions réalisées dans le cadre de cette thèse sont les suivantes: Définition d'un formalisme tabulaire de description de vulnérabilités appelé template. Définition d'un langage formel, appelé Condition de Détection de Vulnérabilité (VDC). Une approche de génération de VDCs à partir des templates. Définition d'une approche de détection de vulnérabilités combinant le model checking et l'injection de fautes. Évaluation des deux approches / In general, computer software vulnerabilities are defined as special cases where an unexpected behavior of the system leads to the degradation of security properties or the violation of security policies. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious users or systems impacting the security and/or operation of the attacked system. Since the literature on vulnerabilities is not always available to developers and the used tools do not allow detecting and avoiding them; the software industry continues to be affected by security breaches. Therefore, the detection of vulnerabilities in software has become a major concern and research area. Our research was done under the scope of the SHIELDS European project and focuses specifically on modeling techniques and formal detection of vulnerabilities. In this area, existing approaches are limited and do not always rely on a precise formal modeling of the vulnerabilities they target. Additionally detection tools produce a significant number of false positives/negatives. Note also that it is quite difficult for a developer to know what vulnerabilities are detected by each tool because they are not well documented. Under this context the contributions made in this thesis are: Definition of a formalism called template. Definition of a formal language, called Vulnerability Detection Condition (VDC), which can accurately model the occurrence of a vulnerability. Also a method to generate VDCs from templates has been defined. Defining a second approach for detecting vulnerabilities which combines model checking and fault injection techniques. Experiments on both approaches
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A symbolic approach for the verification and the test of service choreographies

Nguyễn, Huu Nghia (Hữu Nghĩa) 31 October 2013 (has links) (PDF)
Service-oriented engineering is an emerging software development paradigm for distributed collaborative applications. Such an application is made up of several entities abstracted as services, each of them being for example a Web application, a Web service, or even a human. The services can be developed independently and are composed to achieve common requirements through interactions among them. Service choreographies define such requirements from a global perspective, based on interactions among a set of participants. This thesis aims to formalize the problems and attempts to develop a framework by which service choreographies can be developed correctly for both top-down and bottom-up approaches. It consists in analyzing the relation between a choreography specification and a choreography implementation at both model level and real implementation level. Particularly, it concerns the composition/decomposition service design, the verification, and the testing of choreography implementation. The first key point of our framework is to support value-passing among services by using symbolic technique and SMT solver. It overcomes false negatives or state space explosion issues due by abstracting or limiting the data domain of value-passing in existing approaches. The second key point is the black-box passive testing of choreography implementation. It does not require neither to access to source codes nor to make the implementation unavailable during the testing process. Our framework is fully implemented in our toolchains, which can be downloaded or used online at address: http://schora.lri.fr.
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A symbolic-based passive testing approach to detect vulnerabilities in networking systems

Mouttappa, Pramila 16 December 2013 (has links) (PDF)
Due to the increasing complexity of reactive systems, testing has become an important part in the process of the development of such systems. Conformance testing with formal methods refers to checking functional correctness, by means of testing, of a black-box system under test with respect to a formal system specification, i.e., a specification given in a language with a formal semantics. In this aspect, passive testing techniques are used when the implementation under test cannot be disturbed or the system interface is not provided. Passive testing techniques are based on the observation and verification of properties on the behavior of a system without interfering with its normal operation, it also helps to observe abnormal behavior in the implementation under test on the basis of observing any deviation from the predefined behavior. The main objective of this thesis is to present a new approach to perform passive testing based on the analysis of the control and data part of the system under test. During the last decades, many theories and tools have been developed to perform conformance testing. However, in these theories, the specifications or properties of reactive systems are often modeled by different variants of Labeled Transition Systems (LTS). However, these methodologies do not explicitly take into account the system's data, since the underlying model of LTS are not able to do that. Hence, it is mandatory to enumerate the values of the data before modeling the system. This often results in the state-space explosion problem. To overcome this limitation, we have studied a model called Input-Output Symbolic Transition Systems (IOSTS) which explicitly includes all the data of a reactive system. Many passive testing techniques consider only the control part of the system and neglect data, or are confronted with an overwhelming amount of data values to process. In our approach, we consider control and data parts by integrating the concepts of symbolic execution and we improve trace analysis by introducing trace slicing techniques. Properties are described using Input Output Symbolic Transition Systems (IOSTSs) and we illustrate in our approach how they can be tested on real execution traces optimizing the trace analysis. These properties can be designed to test the functional conformance of a protocol as well as security properties. In addition to the theoretical approach, we have developed a software tool that implements the algorithms presented in this paper. Finally, as a proof of concept of our approach and tool we have applied the techniques to two real-life case studies: the SIP and Bluetooth protocol
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A trust framework for multi-organization environments

Toumi, Khalifa 01 April 2014 (has links) (PDF)
The widespread of inexpensive communication technologies, distributed data storage and web services mechanisms currently urge the collaboration among organizations. Partners are participating in this environment motivated by several advantages such as: (1) the ability to use external and professional resources, services and knowledge, (2) the reduction of time-consuming requirements and (3) the benefaction of experts experience. However, this collaboration is not perfect since several problems can arise such as the misuse of resources, disclosure of data or inadequate services. Therefore, security is an important concern of the participants. In particular trust management and access control are one of the major security issues for an organization. This thesis addresses these two areas in particular. It proposes a novel and comprehensive trust framework for Multi-Organization Environments. Our approach is organized in four parts. First, we propose a vector based model approach for defining trust vectors. These vectors evaluate a set of requirements, under conditions, and provide a degree of confidence. In our approach, we consider two different types of vectors. On the one hand, a vector that links a user to an organization and, on the other hand, a vector that links two organizations. We also show how these vectors are evaluated and shared among the different organizations, and how we combine the provided trust information in order to enhance the security. Second, the TRUST-OrBAC model was designed to add the previous trust approach to the ORBAC model. Moreover, this solution was applied with a real collaboration network between companies. Third, we present a trust ontology methodology based on access control concepts. This ontology will be used to share the trust beliefs between participants and to make equivalence between their trust objectives. How to define this trust relationship, how to understand the trust objective of a requester, and how to evaluate the recommendation value is addressed in this thesis. Fourth, we improve our work by designing a passive testing approach in order to evaluate the behavior of a user. This contribution is based on the monitoring tool MMT. Finally the entire architecture of our system is proposed
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Syntax-Based Dependency Discovery : Extracting Dependencies Between Integration Test Cases for Passive Testing / Syntaxbaserad upptäckt av beroenden : Extrahering av beroenden mellan integrationstestfall för passiv testning

Halldoff, David, Sten, Martin January 2023 (has links)
Modern-day vehicles consist of numerous electronic computing devices with accompanying software. Since vehicles are generally classified as safety-critical systems, rigorous testing strategies have to be deployed to ensure correct operation of the embedded software. Testing in an active sense is understood to be the main testing method for software in general. The main characteristic of active testing is that test cases have complete control over the system under test, warranting sequential execution of test cases. To complement active testing a method called passive testing is being researched, where the main benefit compared to active testing is that the evaluation of test cases becomes parallelizable. As passive testing opens up for concurrency, the issue of not recognizing faulty behavior arises. This could be the case when simultaneously testing functions which share an output, and the incorrect behavior of a function is being masked by the correct behavior of another function. To avoid vacuous test results, the evaluation of dependent test cases can be separated. Previous work describes the process of extracting dependencies between test cases from requirement specifications. However, this approach is not suitable when test cases are derived from various artifacts. In this thesis we present a syntax-based approach for dependency discovery between test cases. The approach was evaluated through a case study using integration test cases developed for active hardware-in-the-loop testing at Scania CV. Dependencies between 946 test cases have been extracted and the test cases were grouped into three categories, with 286 test cases being identified as independent. The approach shows some potential for evaluating test cases written for active testing, but the results indicate that using test cases written specifically for passive testing may yield better results. The approach also proved to be useful for finding bugs and deviations in scripts. Thus, the method has proven useful for discovering dependencies from syntax, but the results are strongly dependent on the complexity and commonality of the scripts. / Moderna fordon innehåller åtskilliga elektroniska kontrollenheter med medföljande programvara. Eftersom fordon ofta anses vara säkerhetskritiska system krävs robusta teststrategier av den inbyggda mjukvaran för att säkerställa korrekt drift. Aktiv testning är för nuvarande den vanligaste metoden för att testa mjukvara. Den huvudsakliga egenskapen för aktiv testning är att testfall har total kontroll över systemet som är satt under test, vilket medför sekventiell utvärdering av testfall. För att komplettera aktiv testning undersöks en metod som kallas passiv testning, där den största fördelen gentemot aktiv testning är att utvärderingen av testfall kan ske parallellt. Att utvärdera testfall samtidigt medför dock att felaktigt beteende i mjukvaran potentiellt kan maskeras. Detta kan ske då flera funktioner delar utsignaler, och en funktions felaktiga beteende maskeras av en annan funktions korrekta beteende. För att undvika tomma sanningar som testresultat, kan utvärderingen av testfall som har ett beroende mellan dem separeras. Föregående arbeten inom området beskriver processen för att extrahera beroenden mellan testfall från kravspecifikationer. Denna metod är dock inte lämplig när testfall är baserade på flera olika artefakter. I detta examensarbete presenterar vi en syntaxbaserad metod för att hitta beroenden mellan testfall. Metoden utvärderades genom en fallstudie på Scania CV, där aktiva integrationstestfall för hardware-in-the-loop användes för analys. Beroenden mellan 946 testfall kunde extraheras och testfallen grupperades i tre olika kategorier, där 286 klassificerades som oberoende. Metoden visar potential för att analysera testfall skrivna för aktiv testning, men resultaten indikerar att testfall skrivna specifikt för passiv testning kan generera ett bättre resultat. Ett oväntat men positivt utfall är att metoden i viss grad kan användas för att hitta buggar och avvikelser i skript. Således har metoden visats användbar för att hitta beroenden från syntax, men resultatet beror starkt på skriptens komplexitet och gemensamhet.
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Test and Validation of Web Services

Cao, Tien Dung 06 December 2010 (has links)
Nous proposons dans cette thèse les approches de test pour la composition de services web. Nous nous intéressons aux test unitaire et d’intégration d’une orchestration de services web. L’aspect de vérification d’exécution en-ligne est aussi consideré. Nous définissons une plateforme de test unitaire pour l’orchestration de services web qui compose une architecture de test, une relation de conformité et deux approches de test basés sur le modèle de machine à l’états finis étendues temporisés: l’approche offline où les activités de test comme la génération de cas de test temporisé, l’exécution de test et l’assignement de verdict sont appliquées en séquentielle tandis que ces activités sont appliquées en parallèle dans l’approche online. Pour le test d’intégration d’une orchestration, nous combinons deux approches: active et passive.Au debut, l’approche active est utilisée pour activer une nouvelle session d’orchestration par l’envoi d’un message de requête SOAP. Après, tous les messages d’entré et de sortie de l’orchestration sont collectés et analysés par l’approche passive.Pour l’aspect de vérification d’exécution en-ligne, nous nous intéressons à la vérification d’une trace qui respecte un ensemble des constraintes, noté règles, ou pas. Nous avons proposé extendre le langage Nomad en définissant des constraintes sur chaque action atomique et un ensemble de corrélation de données entre les actions pour définir des règles pour le service web. Ce langage nous permet de définir des règles avec le temps futur et passé, et d’utiliser des opérations NOT, AND, OR pour combiner quelque conditions dans le contexte de la règle. Ensuite, nous proposons un algorithme pour vérifier l’exactitude d’une séquence des messages en parallèle avec le moteur de collecte de trace. / In this thesis, we propose the testing approaches for web service composition. We focus on unit, integrated testing of an orchestration of web services and also the runtime verification aspect. We defined an unit testing framework for an orchestration that is composed of a test architecture, a conformance relation and two proposed testing approaches based on Timed Extended Finite State Machine (TEFSM) model: offline which test activities as timed test case generation, test execution and verdict assignment are applied in sequential, and online which test activities are applied in parallel. For integrated testing of an orchestration, we combines of two approaches: active and passive. Firstly, active approach is used to start a new session of the orchestration by sending a SOAP request. Then all communicating messages among services are collected and analyzed by a passive approach. On the runtime verification aspect, we are interested in the correctness of an execution trace with a set of defined constraints, called rules. We have proposed to extend the Nomad language, by defining the constraints on each atomic action (fixed conditions) and a set of data correlations between the actions to define the rules for web services. This language allows us to define a rule with future and past time, and to use the operations: NOT, AND, OR to combines some conditions into a context of the rule. Afterwards, we proposed an algorithm to check correctness of a message sequence in parallel with the trace collection engine. Specifically, this algorithm verifies message by message without storing them.
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Cross-fertilizing formal approaches for protocol conformance and performance testing / Approches formelles croisées pour les tests de protocole de conformité et de performance

Che, Xiaoping 26 June 2014 (has links)
Les technologies de communication et les services web sont devenus disponibles dans notre vie numérique, les réseaux informatiques continuent de croître et de nouveaux protocoles de communication sont constamment définis et développés. Par la suite, la standardisation et la normalisation des protocoles sont dispensables pour permettre aux différents systèmes de dialoguer. Bien que ces normes peuvent être formellement vérifiés, les développeurs peuvent produire des erreurs conduisant à des implémentations défectueuses. C'est la raison pour laquelle leur mise en œuvre doit être strictement examinée. Cependant, la plupart des approches de tests actuels exigent une stimulation de l’exécution dans le cadre des tests (IUT). Si le système ne peut être consulté ou interrompu, l'IUT ne sera pas en mesure d'être testé. En outre, la plupart des travaux existants sont basées sur des modèles formels et très peu de travaux s'intéressent à la formalisation des exigences de performance. Pour résoudre ces problèmes, nous avons proposé une approche de test basé sur la logique "Horn" afin de tester passivement la conformité et la performance des protocoles. Dans notre approche, les exigences peuvent être formalisées avec précision. Ces exigences formelles sont également testées par des millions de messages collectés à partir des communicants réels. Les résultats satisfaisants des expériences effectuées ont prouvé le bon fonctionnement et l'efficacité de notre approche. Aussi pour satisfaire les besoins croissants de tests distribués en temps réel, nous avons également proposé un cadre de tests distribués et un cadre de tests en ligne et nous avons mis en œuvre notre plateforme dans un environnement réel à petite échelle avec succès / While today’s communications are essential and a huge set of services is available online, computer networks continue to grow and novel communication protocols are continuously being defined and developed. De facto, protocol standards are required to allow different systems to interwork. Though these standards can be formally verified, the developers may produce some errors leading to faulty implementations. That is the reason why their implementations must be strictly tested. However, most current testing approaches require a stimulation of the implementation under tests (IUT). If the system cannot be accessed or interrupted, the IUT will not be able to be tested. Besides, most of the existing works are based on formal models and quite few works study formalizing performance requirements. To solve these issues, we proposed a novel logic-based testing approach to test the protocol conformance and performance passively. In our approach, conformance and performance requirements can be accurately formalized using the Horn-Logic based syntax and semantics. These formalized requirements are also tested through millions of messages collected from real communicating environments. The satisfying results returned from the experiments proved the functionality and efficiency of our approach. Also for satisfying the increasing needs in real-time distributed testing, we also proposed a distributed testing framework and an online testing framework, and performed the frameworks in a real small scale environment. The preliminary results are obtained with success. And also, applying our approach under billions of messages and optimizing the algorithm will be our future works
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Two complementary approaches to detecting vulnerabilities in C programs

Jimenez, Willy 04 October 2013 (has links) (PDF)
In general, computer software vulnerabilities are defined as special cases where an unexpected behavior of the system leads to the degradation of security properties or the violation of security policies. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious users or systems impacting the security and/or operation of the attacked system. Since the literature on vulnerabilities is not always available to developers and the used tools do not allow detecting and avoiding them; the software industry continues to be affected by security breaches. Therefore, the detection of vulnerabilities in software has become a major concern and research area. Our research was done under the scope of the SHIELDS European project and focuses specifically on modeling techniques and formal detection of vulnerabilities. In this area, existing approaches are limited and do not always rely on a precise formal modeling of the vulnerabilities they target. Additionally detection tools produce a significant number of false positives/negatives. Note also that it is quite difficult for a developer to know what vulnerabilities are detected by each tool because they are not well documented. Under this context the contributions made in this thesis are: Definition of a formalism called template. Definition of a formal language, called Vulnerability Detection Condition (VDC), which can accurately model the occurrence of a vulnerability. Also a method to generate VDCs from templates has been defined. Defining a second approach for detecting vulnerabilities which combines model checking and fault injection techniques. Experiments on both approaches
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A symbolic approach for the verification and the test of service choreographies / Une approche symbolique pour la vérification et le test des chorégraphies de services

Nguyễn, Hữu Nghĩa 31 October 2013 (has links)
L'ingénierie orientée services est un nouveau paradigme pour développer des logiciels distribués et collaboratifs. Un tel logiciel se compose de plusieurs entités, appelés services, chacun d'entre eux étant par exemple une application Web, un service Web, ou même un humain. Les services peuvent être développés indépendamment et sont composés pour atteindre quelques exigences. Les chorégraphies de service définissent ces exigences avec une perspective globale, basée sur les interactions entre des participants qui sont implémentés en tant que services. Cette thèse vise à formaliser des problèmes et tente d'élaborer un environnement intégré avec lequel les chorégraphies de services peuvent être développés correctement pour les deux types d'approches de développement: l'approche descendante et l'approche ascendante. Elle consiste à analyser la relation entre une spécification de chorégraphie et une implémentation de la chorégraphie au niveau du modèle et aussi au niveau de l'implémentation réelle. Particulièrement, il s'agit de la composition/décomposition des services, la vérification, et le test de l'implémentation de chorégraphie. Le premier point-clé de notre environnement intégré est de représenter le passage de valeurs entre les services en utilisant la technique symbolique et un solveur SMT. Cette technique nous permet de réduire les faux négatifs et de contourner le problème d'explosion combinatoire de l'espace d'états, ces problèmes sont durs à l'abstraction et à l'énumération des valeurs pour les approches existantes basées données. Le second point-clé est le test passif boîte noire de l'implémentation de chorégraphie. Il ne nécessite pas d'accéder au code source, ni de rendre indisponible l'implémentation pendant le processus de test. Notre environnement intégré est mis en œuvre dans nos outils qui sont disponibles en téléchargement ou à utiliser en ligne à l’adresse http://schora.lri.fr. / Service-oriented engineering is an emerging software development paradigm for distributed collaborative applications. Such an application is made up of several entities abstracted as services, each of them being for example a Web application, a Web service, or even a human. The services can be developed independently and are composed to achieve common requirements through interactions among them. Service choreographies define such requirements from a global perspective, based on interactions among a set of participants. This thesis aims to formalize the problems and attempts to develop a framework by which service choreographies can be developed correctly for both top-down and bottom-up approaches. It consists in analyzing the relation between a choreography specification and a choreography implementation at both model level and real implementation level. Particularly, it concerns the composition/decomposition service design, the verification, and the testing of choreography implementation. The first key point of our framework is to support value-passing among services by using symbolic technique and SMT solver. It overcomes false negatives or state space explosion issues due by abstracting or limiting the data domain of value-passing in existing approaches. The second key point is the black-box passive testing of choreography implementation. It does not require neither to access to source codes nor to make the implementation unavailable during the testing process. Our framework is fully implemented in our toolchains, which can be downloaded or used online at address: http://schora.lri.fr.

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