Journal of Information Processing Systems

Korea Information Processing Society (한국정보처리학회)
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Error Recovery Script of Immunity Debugger for C# .NET Applications

  • Shinde, Rupali (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Choi, Min (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Lee, Su-Hyun (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Changwon National University)
  • Received : 2018.12.06
  • Accepted : 2019.05.08
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

We present a new technique, called VED (very effective debugging), for detecting and correcting division by zero errors for all types of .NET application. We use applications written in C# because C# applications are distributed through the internet and its executable format is used extensively. A tool called Immunity Debugger is used to reverse engineer executable code to get binaries of source code. With this technique, we demonstrate integer division by zero errors, the location of the error causing assembly language code, as well as error recovery done according to user preference. This technique can be extended to work for other programming languages in addition to C#. VED can work on different platforms such as Linux. This technique is simple to implement and economical because all the software used here are open source. Our aims are to simplify the maintenance process and to reduce the cost of the software development life cycle.

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