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Practical Binary Analysis
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Practical Binary Analysis

by Dennis Andriesse
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 45m
English
No Starch Press
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12PRINCIPLES OF SYMBOLIC EXECUTION

Symbolic execution tracks metadata about the program state, just as taint analysis does. But unlike taint information, which only lets you infer that part of the program state affects another, symbolic execution allows you to reason about how the program state came to be and how to reach different program states. As you’ll see, symbolic execution enables many powerful analyses not possible with other techniques.

I’ll start this chapter with an overview of the basics of symbolic execution. Then, you’ll learn more about constraint solving (specifically, SMT solving ), which is a fundamental building block of symbolic execution. In Chapter 13, you’ll use Triton, a binary-level symbolic execution library, to build ...

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