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0.7-dev

0.6 (2022-06)

  • Add support for analysis of bare-metal binaries (PR #203)
  • Improve expressiveness of DataDomain (PRs #209, #211)
  • Add --statistics and --verbose commandline flags (PRs #210, #216)
  • Improve handling of MIPS binaries (PR #213)
  • Sort generated CWE warnings by address (PR #221)
  • Publish Docker images on ghcr.io in addition to Dockerhub (PR #222, #225)
  • Correctly classify some CWEs as Null dereferences instead of buffer overflows (PR #226)
  • Implement abstract domains for strings and rewrite CWE-78 check using them (PR #235)
  • Updated dependencies (PRs #206, #264, #266, #282)
  • Implement function signature analysis (PR #267, #277)
  • Update cwe_checker_to_ida script (PRs #279, #281)
  • New installer script that can search for the Ghidra installation path for you (PR #278)
  • Refactor handling of caller stacks in PointerInference analysis (PR #287)
  • Project struct refactorings (PRs #291, #301, #324)
  • New improved implementation of CWE-416 Use-After-Free check (PRs #311, #318, #328)
  • New improved implementation of CWE-119 Buffer Overflow check (PRs #315, #326, #328, #333)
  • Use information on non-returning functions in CFG generation (PR #319)
  • Handle stack manipulation based on stack alignment for x86 (PRs #317, #323)

0.5 (2021-07)

  • Switched default backend to Ghidra (PR #128)
  • Handle global memory accesses during analysis (PRs #131, #133)
  • Improvements to the Docker image (PR #134)
  • Add OS Command Injection Check (PRs #130, #154, #167, #182, #184, #187)
  • Remove deprecated BAP backend (PRs #148, #149, #150)
  • Implement abstract strided interval domain (PRs #152, #158, #166, #189)
  • Add Buffer Overflow checks (PRs #159, #174)
  • Prevent duplication of warnings in CWE-415 and CWE-416 checks (#183)
  • Implement expression propagation to improve disassembler output (#185)

0.4 (2021-01)

  • Added a lot more test cases to acceptance tests (PR #46)
  • Reworked CWE-476 check to track stack variables (PR #47)
  • Switched to BAP 2.0 (PR #49)
  • Several internal code improvements (PRs #51, #58, #62, #67)
  • Added deprecation warnings to the emulation based checks (PR #66)
  • Added a new (still experimental) engine for data-flow analysis written in Rust (PR #70)
  • Added new, data-flow based checks for CWEs 415 and 416 (PR #70)
  • Several code improvements to for the CWE 415 and 416 checks (PRs #76, #77. #78, #84)
  • Report more accurate incident locations for CWE 476 (PR #80)
  • Enable Ghidra as an alternative Backend to BAP (still experimental) (PRs #86, #87)
  • Added acceptance tests for the Ghidra backend (PRs #91, #99)
  • Bugfixes for the Ghidra backend (PRs #98, #101, #104, #106, #110, #114, #120)
  • Ported the CWE checks to Rust for the Ghidra backend (PRs #88, #95, #100, #102, #111, #117, #119, #121)
  • Added support for Ghidra 9.2 (PR #116) and BAP 2.2 (PR #122)

0.3 (2019-12)

  • Added more documentation to checks (PR #26)
  • Added clang as another compiler for test cases, added tests for clang compiled test cases (PR #27)
  • Fixed check CWE367: use symbols defined in config.json (PR #28)
  • Refactoring of logging and JSON support via --json (PR #30)
  • Added file output support via --out (PR #30)
  • Surpress logging of info, error and warning to STDOUT via --no-logging (PR #32)
  • Added check-path feature via --check-path that searches paths between interesting input functions and cwe hits (PR #31)
  • Added online documentation (PR #36, #37)
  • Added convenience executable to enable shorter command line options (PR #40)
  • Added a plugin for integration into Ghidra (PR #42, #43)

0.2 (2019-06-25)

  • Refactoring: Unification of cwe_checker function interface
  • Refactoring: Created utils module for JSON functionality
  • Added check for CWE 248: Uncaught Exception (PR #5)
  • Added automated test suite (run with make test) (PR #7)
  • Improved cross compiling for acceptance test cases by using dockcross (PR #8)
  • Added BAP recipe for standard cwe_checker run (PR #9)
  • Improved check for CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference) using data flow analysis (PR #11)
  • Added cwe_checker_emulation plugin based on BAP's Primus to detect CWE-125, CWE-415, and CWE-416 (PR #15)
  • Switched C build system from make to scons (PR #16)
  • Added type inference pass (PR #14, #18)
  • Added unit tests to test suite (PR #14)
  • Added check for CWE-560 (Use of umask() with chmod-style Argument) (PR #21)

0.1 (2018-10-08)

Initial release of cwe_checker.