HeapHopper – A Bounded Model Checking Framework For Heap-Implementations

HeapHopper is a bounded model checking framework for Heap-implementation. 

HeapHopper Setup

sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential python-dev virtualenvwrapper
git clone https://github.com/angr/heaphopper.git && cd ./heaphopper
mkvirtualenv -ppython2 heaphopper
pip install -e .

Required Packages

build-essential python-dev virtualenvwrapper

Required Python-Packages

ana angr cle claripy IPython psutil pyelftools pyyaml

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Examples

# Gen zoo of permutations
heaphopper.py gen -c analysis.yaml

#  Trace instance
make -C tests
heaphopper.py  trace -c tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/analysis.yaml -b tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin

# Gen PoC
heaphopper.py poc -c tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/analysis.yaml -r tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin-result.yaml -d tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin-desc.yaml -s tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.c -b tests/how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.bin

# Tests
cd tests
# Show source
cat how2heap_fastbin_dup/fastbin_dup.c
# Run tests
./run_tests.py
# Show PoC source
cat pocs/malloc_non_heap/fastbin_dup.bin/poc_0_0.c
# Run PoC
./run_poc.sh pocs/malloc_non_heap/fastbin_dup.bin/bin/poc_0_0.bin

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