Title:

A formal dynamic semantics of Java: an essential ingredient of Java security, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2002, nr 4

Creator:

Yahyaoui, Hamdi ; Debbabi, Mourad ; Tawbi, Nadia

Subject and Keywords:

security ; Java ; operational semantics ; static analysis ; certifying compilers ; dynamic semantics ; small step semantics

Description:

Security is becoming a major issue in our highly networked and computerized era. Malicious code detection is an essential step towards securing the execution of applications in a highly inter-connected context. In this paper, we present a formal definition of Java dynamic semantics. This semantics has been used as a basis to develop efficient, rigorous and provably correct static analysis tools and a certifying compiler aimed to detect and prevent the presence of malicious code in Java applications. We propose a small step operational semantics of a large subset for Java. The latter includes features that have not been completely addressed in the related work or addressed in another semantics style. We provide a fully-fledged semantic handling of exceptions, reachable statements, modifiers and class initialization.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Date:

2002, nr 4

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2002.4.143

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności