Automatic Detection and Healing of Vulnerabilities in Embedded Systems

In this proposal, we outline a fundamentally new approach to enable autonomous detection of exploitation attempts as well as an on-demand healing of the targeted code.A new static vulnerability point characterization concept and associated runtime support enable exploit detection prior to compromise as well as healing at runtime. BlueRISCs solution detects the exploitation prior to the transfer of control.Additionally, this solution is rooted in a fundamental healing methodology that is capable of ensuring that a previously vulnerable code is no longer exploitable.The hybrid compiler-guided runtime approach enables low overhead that is ideal in embedded systems.