Automatic bug repair

Posted by namanyayg on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:42PM
from the newsoffice.mit.edu dept.

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/automatic-code-bug-repair-0629

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Re:Automatic bug repair by jomtung on Monday June 29, 2015 @05:56PM (#9801427)

It's like they took the idea of CRISPR from biology and applied it to the problem of replacing code in software instead of DNA. Brilliant method.

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Re:Automatic bug repair by vmorgulis on Monday June 29, 2015 @06:03PM (#9801467)

I found this paper mentioning CodePhage: http://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/pldi15.pdf

Very interesting.

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Re:Automatic bug repair by linkergames on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @02:54AM (#9803415)

Reminds me of this: http://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

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Re:Automatic bug repair by personjerry on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:35PM (#9802539)

This is super cool. How do we use it? Give us an API! :)

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Re:Automatic bug repair by Kalium on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:13AM (#9802911)

This seems like it could be used to automatically insert vulnerabilities, too.

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Re:Automatic bug repair by namanyayg on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:53AM (#9803018)

Genuine question, how? By compromising the code of the trusted code repositories the algorithm uses?

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Re:Automatic bug repair by Kalium on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:58AM (#9803210)

Basically, this is a general system for replacing undesirable traits with desirable ones in binaries. All you have to do is change the local selection criteria for desirable and undesirable.

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