STARM · SW-10 · SOFTWARE

Memory Corruption

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STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Corrupting memory to alter software behavior.

Severity in the dataset8/10

Not the paper’s H/M/L.

Target
Program Logic
Layer in the inventory
Backend
Mitigation
ASLR and DEP implementation on RTOS.
How the inventory says to fix it
Rule-based: ASLR/DEP. AI: Identifying patterns of illegal memory access in core OS dumps.
Quick fix
Process Restart
ML approaches named
Autoencoders, HMMs, RNN-based runtime monitoring, Statistical anomaly detection, Gaussian Mixture Models
Methodology
Irregular memory usage, unexpected pointer behavior, abnormal crash signatures, execution path anomalies
Handler role
Software Engineer
Stage
Operation
Standard named
ISO/IEC 17961
Status in the inventory
Partially managed

STARMCatalog entries from the DIPS Threat Inventory. The paper cites that dataset and does not use this name.

Connection recorded in the inventory

Buffer Overflows