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Michael Kong

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper
Program analysis · 100%
Network and information security
1 paper
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security
smart contract security
0.312018
MadMax: surviving out-of-gas conditions in Ethereum smart contracts · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2018
Program analysis
static analysis
0.312018
MadMax: surviving out-of-gas conditions in Ethereum smart contracts · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2018
Program analysis › static analysis
vulnerability detection
0.312018
MadMax: surviving out-of-gas conditions in Ethereum smart contracts · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2018
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security › blockchain protocols
ethereum
0.112018
MadMax: surviving out-of-gas conditions in Ethereum smart contracts · Proc. ACM Program. Lang. 2018

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

decompilation · 0.7declarative program-structure queries · 0.7control flow analysis · 0.7
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2018 MadMax: surviving out-of-gas conditions in Ethereum smart contracts
abstract
Ethereum is a distributed blockchain platform, serving as an ecosystem for smart contracts: full-fledged inter-communicating programs that capture the transaction logic of an account. Unlike programs in mainstream languages, a gas limit restricts the execution of an Ethereum smart contract: execution proceeds as long as gas is available. Thus, gas is a valuable resource that can be manipulated by an attacker to provoke unwanted behavior in a victim's smart contract (e.g., wasting or blocking funds of said victim). Gas-focused vulnerabilities exploit undesired behavior when a contract (directly or through other interacting contracts) runs out of gas. Such vulnerabilities are among the hardest for programmers to protect against, as out-of-gas behavior may be uncommon in non-attack scenarios and reasoning about it is far from trivial. In this paper, we classify and identify gas-focused vulnerabilities, and present MadMax: a static program analysis technique to automatically detect gas-focused vulnerabilities with very high confidence. Our approach combines a control-flow-analysis-based decompiler and declarative program-structure queries. The combined analysis captures high-level domain-specific concepts (such as "dynamic data structure storage" and "safely resumable loops") and achieves high precision and scalability. MadMax analyzes the entirety of smart contracts in the Ethereum blockchain in just 10 hours (with decompilation timeouts in 8% of the cases) and flags contracts with a (highly volatile) monetary value of over $2.8B as vulnerable. Manual inspection of a sample of flagged contracts shows that 81% of the sampled warnings do indeed lead to vulnerabilities, which we report on in our experiment.
Neville Grech, Michael Kong, Anton Jurisevic, Lexi Brent, Bernhard Scholz, Yannis Smaragdakis
Proc. ACM Program. Lang.2