Automatically Finding Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

In 1988 when the internet was still in its infancy, a piece of malware known as the Morris Worm infected nearly 10 percent of the internet over the course of two days, eventually instigating between $100 thousand and $10 million in damages according to the Government Accountability Office. The Morris Worm would eventually be known as the “Grand Daddy” of a specific cyberattack common even to this day: the buffer overflow.

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