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BASS, a Benchmarking suite for evaluating Architectural Security Systems, is a collection of vulnerable programs and scripts for automatically generating exploits across different machines and multiple architectures. The BASS suite of benchmarks has been designed to simplify the security evaluation of proposed architectural security solutions while increasing the thoroughness of evaluation by ensuring attack dimension diversity.

A few of the advantages of the BASS framework are:
  • Automatically generating machine specific exploits
  • Compatible with both x86 Linux and Alpha Linux
  • Designed to run on native machines/full system simulators
  • Modular in design for easy swapping of key functions (e.g. encryption)
  • Programs take input in a scriptable format for easy deterministic simulation
  • Vulnerable programs provide basic functionality so a normal database can be built
  • Optional "DEBUG_MODE" preprocessor displays key memory throughout attack
  • Code well documented for use in educational environments
  • Easy, standardized interface for compiling, generating, and executing exploits
  • Exploits designed for diversity across multiple dimensions including vulnerability class, attack style, end result, memory location, code injection, and payload location
 
 
Documentation
 
James Poe and Tao Li, "BASS: A Benchmarking suite for evaluating Architectural Security Systems" Computer Architecture News, Volume 34, Issue 4, pages 26-33, September 2006
 
 
Acknowledgements
 
This work is supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Microsoft Research Trustworthy Computing Award No. 14707.
 
 
Quick Start Commands
 
The following commands can be used within the individual benchmark directories.

To compile the benchmark for your architecture with any deps:
      make

To compile the benchmark for your architecture /w any deps and memory watching:
      make debugmode

To remove all binaries:
      make clean

To automatically generate attack command capabable of being added to a script:
      ./generate.sh

To automatically generate attack command and execute attack:
      ./runme.sh
 
 
Current Version
 
The current version of the bass is version 1.0.0:

File Name: bass-1.0.0.tar.gz
File Size: 32467 Bytes
MD5: 347525503f35e475728510e2b15a50a3
 
 
Current Benchmark Status
 
Benchmark Vulnerable Program Attack Type Verified On
01
(readme)
lottery buffer overflow
bss memory section
functional pointer overwrite
modify instruction flow
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
m5
02
(readme)
lottery buffer overflow
bss memory section
variable overwrite
modify bank account
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
m5
03
(readme)
message_wall buffer overflow
heap memory section
file pointer overwrite
add root account
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
m5
04
(readme)
small_finger buffer overflow
stack memory
overwrite return address
shellcode injection (stack)
spawn root shell
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
05
(readme)
secure_log format string
data memory
read variable
read cryptographic key
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
m5
06
(readme)
secure_log format string
data memory
overwrite variable
modify cryptographic key
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
m5
07
(readme)
secure_log format string
dtor memory
overwrite deconstructor
shellcode injection (environment)
spawn root shell
x86 Linux
Alpha Linux
 
 
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BASS is released freely under the GNU GPL and may be downloaded, executed, copied, and modified without limitation by the end user. No user may place any restrictions on the use of this software, including as modified by the user. BASS is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied. The user of the program accepts full responsibility for the application of the program and the use of any results produced.


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