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MOPS - a model checker for security propertiesCategory: Code Auditing
Language: C, C++, and Objective-C
Posted by John Viega on Sun, Aug 31, 2003 (03:44 PM) GMT

External URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/mops/

This is a code analysis tool for C programs that can check for interesting security properties using a "model checking" approach. The current tool is a research-oriented tool that doesn't contain a significant database of knowledge, but that is expected to change eventually. If something in its database, it does a much better analysis than tools like RATS in that it has far fewer false positives.


There are some kinds of security problems that aren't well-suited for analysis by this model checking approach, such as buffer overflow and integer signedness problems. Other analysis tools help address these problems.



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