Hyung Seok Kim

Virtualization has been receiving increasing attention in embedded real-time systems. However, real-time systems, whose correctness depends on timing requirements, are not easily applicable to virtualization since virtualization mainly focuses on functional correctness. A hierarchical scheduling framework (HSF) provides a method of composing the complex timing requirements of real-time systems. There have been several works on the implementation of the HSF. Although the scheduling framework of v

Although most companies operate a firewall to protect their information assets, they have difficulties in identifying the control conditions of firewalls. This study proposes an analysis tool to visualize segment-based firewall rules to facilitate verification of the current control conditions. The proposed visualization tool analyzes the current control conditions of packets automatically, thereby eliminating the need for manual inspection as before, and displays the conditions with a visualiza

Current function identification techniques have been mostly focused on a specific set of binaries compiled for a specific CPU architecture. While recent deep-learning-based approaches theoretically can handle binaries from different architectures, they require significant computation resources for training and inference, making their use less practical. Furthermore, due to the lack of interpretability of such models, it is fundamentally difficult to gain insight from them. Hence, in this paper,

As CPU vendors introduce various hardware-assisted security features, modern compilers have started to produce binaries containing security-related instructions. Interestingly, such instructions tend to alter the shape of resulting binaries, which can potentially affect the effectiveness of binary analysis. This paper presents the first systematic study on the implication of the Intel CET (Control-flow Enforcement Technology) instructions on function identification. Our study finds that CET-rele

Assembler is a critical component of the compiler toolchain, which has been less tested than the other components. Unfortunately, current grammar-based fuzzing techniques suffer from several challenges when testing assemblers. First, each different assembler accepts different grammar rules and syntaxes, and there are no existing assembly grammar specifications. Second, not every assembler is open-source, which makes it difficult to extract grammar rules from the source code. While existing black

A description is given of the structure and the implementation of the TDX-10 software, which is a large-scale electronic switching system with distributed control architecture. The system structure is layered into three levels, a system, a subsystem, and a block. A system, the top level, is divided into many subsystems, each devoted to a specific function. Each subsystem is broken down into many building blocks which consist of several program files. As a basic loading unit in a processor, an ex