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> I don't really see the point of automated triaging myself. Given the sophistication and skill of some writers out there, you should just assume that an attack
by albntomat0 6y ago
> I don't really see the point of automated triaging myself. Given the sophistication and skill of some writers out there, you should just assume that an attacker-controlled write primitive would eventually lead to RCE. The essay mentions this when it goes into the intersection of skill, motivation and resources. But on the defender side this shouldn't matter no? A bug is a bug, and memory corruption should just blindly be assumed to be a 'worst case'.
I think the utility of auto-triaging is when the bug isn't a clear arb read/write. The article links to https://seanhn.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/heelan_ccs_2019.pdf https://seanhn.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/heelan_ccs_2019.p..., which talks about how to automatically develop exploits from limit heap corruption primitives.