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MIT System Fixes Software Bugs Without Access To Source Code

Posted by Soulskill on from the copies-solutions-from-stack-overflow dept.

jan_jes writes: MIT researchers have presented a new system at the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference that repairs software bugs by automatically importing functionality from other, more secure applications. According to MIT, "The system, dubbed CodePhage, doesn't require access to the source code of the applications. Instead, it analyzes the applications' execution and characterizes the types of security checks they perform. As a consequence, it can import checks from applications written in programming languages other than the one in which the program it's repairing was written."

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  1. Re:Hmmm .... by VorpalRodent · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried that, but the parent process was *not* happy!

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    Take it to the limit, everybody to the limit, come on, everybody fhqwhgads.
  2. Re:Hmmm .... by RabidReindeer · · Score: 3, Funny

    >>>> system finds that piece of code and automatically puts it together with whatever pieces of code you need to make your program work

    Hey! Why does my Windows 10 system boot up with a picture of a penguin?