Automatic Exploit Generation: First of its Kind

Review of AEG: Automatic Exploit Generation by CMU

Note that I don’t claim to be an expert in this topic at all. This is just a review based off of what I have read. I would appreciate any constructive criticism.

Automatic Exploit Generation, is as it sounds, an automatic way of generating security exploits for vulnerabilities in a program. This is known as the AEG challenge. This paper details the first end-to-end system for fully automatic exploit generation. The CMU team first shows how…