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ASE 2019

Manticore: A User-Friendly Symbolic Execution Framework for Binaries and Smart Contracts

Mark Mossberg, Felipe Manzano, Eric Hennenfent, Alex Groce, Gustavo Grieco, Josselin Feist, Trent Brunson, Artem Dinaburg

PDFDOI 10.1109/ase.2019.00133dblp

Abstract

An effective way to maximize code coverage in software tests is through dynamic symbolic execution-a technique that uses constraint solving to systematically explore a program's state space. We introduce an open-source dynamic symbolic execution framework called Manticore for analyzing binaries and Ethereum smart contracts. Manticore's flexible architecture allows it to support both traditional and exotic execution environments, and its API allows users to customize their analysis. Here, we discuss Manticore's architecture and demonstrate the capabilities we have used to find bugs and verify the correctness of code for our commercial clients.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Mossberg-al:ASE19,
  author    = {Mark Mossberg and
               Felipe Manzano and
               Eric Hennenfent and
               Alex Groce and
               Gustavo Grieco and
               Josselin Feist and
               Trent Brunson and
               Artem Dinaburg},
  title     = {Manticore: A {User-Friendly} Symbolic Execution Framework for Binaries and Smart Contracts},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {1186--1189},
  publisher = {{IEEE}},
  year      = {2019},
}

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