Type-based dependency analysis for javascript

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Keil;Peter Thiemann

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Programming languages and analysis for security
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Dependency analysis is a program analysis that determines potential data flow between program points. While it is not a security analysis per se, it is a viable basis for investigating data integrity, for ensuring confidentiality, and for guaranteeing sanitization. A noninterference property can be stated and proved for the dependency analysis. We have designed and implemented a dependency analysis for JavaScript. We formalize this analysis as an abstraction of a tainting semantics. We prove the correctness of the tainting semantics, the soundness of the abstraction, a noninterference property, and the termination of the analysis.