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US 9,959,411 B2Granted
Detecting security vulnerabilities on computing devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRoee Hay, Daniel Kalman, Roi Saltzman, Omer Tripp
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Abstract
Identifying security vulnerabilities on computing devices by detecting an inter-process communication on a computing device, determining whether the inter-process communication is consistent with a predefined specification of a security vulnerability, and causing a predefined action to be performed on the computing device responsive to determining that the inter-process communication is consistent with a predefined specification of a security vulnerability.
Claims6
A computer-implemented method within a computer hardware system, comprising:
- identifying, by a monitoring application and from manifest data of a process executing within the computer hardware system, a type of inter-process communication associated with the process,
- rewriting, by the monitoring application, manifest data of the monitoring application to accept the type of inter-processing communication;
- detecting, within the computer hardware system and by the monitoring application, an inter-process communication issued from the process;
- determining, using the monitoring application, whether the inter-process communication consistent with a predefined specification of a security vulnerability;
- determining a type of the security vulnerability;
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- performing, based upon the determined type of the security vulnerability, a predefined action.
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