• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.4933-4956
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• 2016

Use-After-Free (UAF) is a common lethal form of software vulnerability. By using tools such as Web Browser Fuzzing, a large amount of samples containing UAF vulnerabilities can be generated. To evaluate the threat level of vulnerability or to patch the vulnerabilities, automatic deduplication and exploitability determination should be carried out for these samples. There are some problems existing in current methods, including inadequate pertinence, lack of depth and precision of analysis, high time cost, and low accuracy. In this paper, in terms of key dangling pointer and crash context, we analyze four properties of similar samples of UAF vulnerability, explore the method of extracting and calculate clustering eigenvalues from these samples, perform clustering by fast search and find of density peaks on a large number of vulnerability samples. Samples were divided into different UAF vulnerability categories according to the clustering results, and the exploitability of these UAF vulnerabilities was determined by observing the shape of class cluster. Experimental results showed that the approach was applicable to the deduplication and exploitability determination of a large amount of UAF vulnerability samples, with high accuracy and low performance cost.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.107-108
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• 2008

This paper surveys areas of vulnerability to voltage sags in KEPCO system. The area of vulnerability can be defined as the region where the occurrence of faults will lead to voltages lower than the sensitivity threshold of equipment. The analysis of the area of vulnerability is essential for estimating system voltage sag performance and establishing efficient countermeasures for voltage sag problems. In this paper, two buses in KEPCO system were randomly selected and the areas of vulnerability for the buses were calculated by using dedicated software.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.237-255
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• 2006

This study was exploratively performed to demonstrate the management behavior of the public software project in korea. In this study, 167 auditing reports on the public software project which were carried out during $1999{\sim}2003$, were employed and surveyed. Survey reveals that quality management was the most neglected in process of software project management relative to other 12 management areas. And configuration management, risk management, time management, and scope management follow up in order in its vulnerability in software project management.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.813-818
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• 2018

In this paper, the assessment items were selected for water by drought, water quality by drought, and thermal diseases by heat wave. We described the selection background for these assessment items. and then we weighted the selected vulnerability assessment items. The vulnerability assessment procedures also describe the calculation methods applied in phases and the actual cases. The vulnerability assessment database was analyzed and a climate change vulnerability assessment system for heat waves and droughts using these vulnerability assessment procedures was designed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

As the IT environment becomes more sophisticated, various threats and their associated serious risks are increasing. Threats such as DDoS attacks, malware, worms, and APT attacks can be a very serious risk to enterprises and must be efficiently managed in a timely manner. Therefore, the government has designated the important system as the main information communication infrastructure in consideration of the impact on the national security and the economic society according to the 'Information and Communication Infrastructure Protection Act', which, in particular, protects the main information communication infrastructure from cyber infringement. In addition, it conducts management supervision such as analysis and evaluation of vulnerability, establishment of protection measures, implementation of protection measures, and distribution of technology guides. Even now, security consulting is proceeding on the basis of 'Guidance for Evaluation of Technical Vulnerability Analysis of Major IT Infrastructure Facilities'. There are neglected inspection items in the applied items, and the vulnerability of APT attack, malicious code, and risk are present issues that are neglected. In order to eliminate the actual security risk, the security manager has arranged the inspection and ordered the special company. In other words, it is difficult to check against current hacking or vulnerability through current system vulnerability checking method. In this paper, we propose an efficient method for extracting diagnostic data regarding the necessity of upgrading system vulnerability check, a check item that does not reflect recent trends, a technical check case for latest intrusion technique, a related study on security threats and requirements. Based on this, we investigate the security vulnerability management system and vulnerability list of domestic and foreign countries, propose effective security vulnerability management system, and propose further study to improve overseas vulnerability diagnosis items so that they can be related to domestic vulnerability items.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2019

To enhance effective and efficient applications of automated security vulnerability checkers in highly competitive and fast-evolving IT industry, this paper studies a comprehensive set of security bug checkers in open-source static analysis frameworks and how they can be utilized for source code inspections according to the security vulnerability inspection guidelines by MOIS. This paper clarifies the relationship be tween all 42 inspection criteria in the MOIS guideline and total 323 security bug checkers in 4 popular open-source static analysis frameworks for Java web applications. Based on the result, this paper also discuss the current challenges and issues in the MOIS guideline, the comparison among the four security bug checker frameworks, and also the ideas to improve the security inspection methodologies using the MOIS guideline and open-source static security bug checkers.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.1225-1236
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• 2020

Fuzzing is an automated software testing methodology that dynamically tests the security of software by inputting randomly generated input values outside of the expected range. KISA is releasing open source for standard cryptographic algorithms, and many crypto module developers are developing crypto modules using this source code. If there is a vulnerability in the open source code, the cryptographic library referring to it has a potential vulnerability, which may lead to a security accident that causes enormous losses in the future. Therefore, in this study, an appropriate security policy was established to verify the safety of block cipher source codes such as SEED, HIGHT, and ARIA, and the safety was verified using differential fuzzing. Finally, a total of 45 vulnerabilities were found in the memory bug items and error handling items, and a vulnerability improvement plan to solve them is proposed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.541-547
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• 2019

Recent developments in hacking technology are continuing to increase the number of new security vulnerabilities. Approximately 80,000 new vulnerabilities have been registered in the Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) database, which is a representative vulnerability database, from 2010 to 2015, and the trend is gradually increasing in recent years. While security vulnerabilities are growing at a rapid pace, responses to security vulnerabilities are slow to respond because they rely on manual analysis. To solve this problem, there is a need for a technology that can automatically detect and patch security vulnerabilities and respond to security vulnerabilities in advance. In this paper, we propose the technology to extract the features of the vulnerability-discovery target binary through complexity analysis, and select a vulnerability-discovery strategy suitable for the feature and automatically explore the vulnerability. The proposed technology was compared to the AFL, ANGR, and Driller tools, with about 6% improvement in code coverage, about 2.4 times increase in crash count, and about 11% improvement in crash incidence.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.535-545
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• 2014

As the software industry has developed, the attacks making use of software vulnerability has become a big issue in society. In particular, because the attacks using the vulnerability of web browsers bypass Windows protection mechanism, web browsers can readily be attacked. To protect web browsers against security threat, research on fuzzing has constantly been conducted. However, most existing web browser fuzzing tools use a simple fuzzing technique which randomly mutates DOM tree. Therefore, this paper analyzed existing web browser fuzzing tools and the patterns of their already-known vulnerability to propose an event and command based fuzzing tool which can detect the latest web browser vulnerability more effectively. Three kinds of existing fuzzing tools were compared with the proposed tool. As a result, it was found that the event and command based fuzzing tool proposed was more effective.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.1169-1178
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• 2012

Recently, since the most software intensive systems are using internet environment for data exchange, the software security is being treated as a big issue. And, to minimize vulnerability of software system, security ensuring steps which are applying secure coding rules, are introduced in the software development process. But, since actual attacks are using a variety of software vulnerabilities, it is hard to analyze software weakness by monotonic analysis. In this paper, it is tried to against the complex attack on the variety of software vulnerability using the coupling which is one of the important characteristic of software. Furthermore, pre-analysis of the complex attack patterns using a combination of various attack methods, is carried out to predict possible attack patterns in the relationship between software modules. And the complex attack pattern analysis method is proposed based on this result.