| Semester | Summer 2021 |
| Course type | Block Seminar |
| Lecturer | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Wressnegger |
| Audience | Informatik Master & Bachelor |
| Credits | 4 ECTS |
| Room | 148, Building 50.34 Online |
| Language | English or German |
| Link | tba |
| Registration | tba |
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this course is going to start off remotely, meaning, the kick-off meeting will happen online. The final colloquium, however, will hopefully be an in-person meeting again.
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This seminar is concerned with the analysis and the discovery of vulnerabilities in software. Exploitable flaws in software are the foundation of attacks against entire systems and networks. Finding these hence is an important building block of proactive security.
The module introduces students to the large field of vulnerability discovery and teaches them to work up results from state-of-the-art research. To this end, the students will read up on a sub-field, prepare a seminar report, and present their work at the end of the term to their colleagues.
Topics include but are not limited to approaches for fuzzing software/devices, particular vulnerability classes, and static analysis for finding bugs.
| Date | Step |
| Tue, 13. April, 11:30–13:00 | Primer on academic writing, assignment of topics |
| Thu, 22. April | Arrange appointment with assistant |
| Mo, 26. April - Fr, 30. April | Individual meetings with assistant |
| Wed, 16. May | Submit final paper |
| Wed, 30. June | Submit review for fellow students |
| Fri, 02. July | End of discussion phase |
| Thu, 09. July | Submit camera-ready version of your paper |
| Fr, 23. July | Presentation at final colloquium |
News about the seminar, potential updates to the schedule, and additional material are distributed using a separate mailing list. Moreover, the list enables students to discuss topics of the seminar.
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Every student may choose one of the following topics. For each of these, we additionally provide a recent top-tier publication that you should use as a starting point for your own research. For the seminar and your final report, you should not merely summarize that paper, but try to go beyond and arrive at your own conclusions.
Moreover, all of these papers come with open-source implementations. Play around with these and include the lessons learned in your report.
Topics are going to be announced soon.