News

04-Jul-2018: Klever 1.0 released

We are happy to announce that a long term work aimed to redesign LDV Tools has been completed by releasing Klever 1.0.

Klever provides a lot of new features including:

28-Jun-2018: Linux Verification Center at Sound Static Analysis for Security Workshop

Alexey Khoroshilov presented the experience of Linux Verification Center in proving sequential properties of unmodified Linux kernel code using Frama-C with AstraVer plugin at Sound Static Analysis for Security Workshop held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, on June 27-28, 2018.

15-Jun-2018: CPA&LDV Workshop 2018 will take place in Moscow

The joint 3rd International Workshop on CPAchecker (CPA) and 8th Linux Driver Verification (LDV) Workshop
will take place on September 25-26, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.

23-Apr-2018: CPAchecker-BAM-BnB and CPAchecker-BAM-Slicing at SV-COMP'2018

CPAchecker-BAM-BnB and CPAchecker-BAM-Slicing were presented at the 7th International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) held at TACAS 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece. This year our submission CPAchecker-BAM-BnB has won Gold medal and CPAchecker-BAM-Slicing has won Bronze medal in Software Systems category.

7-Sep-2017: 7th Linux Driver Verification Workshop took place in Paderborn

7th Linux Driver Verification Workshop was held in Paderborn, Germany on September 4-5 colocated with 2nd International Workshop on CPAchecker.

28-Aug-2017: Finding bugs related to the data races in Linux kernel

Anton Volkov has finished his Google Summer of Code project "Finding bugs related to the data races in Linux kernel" for The Linux Foundation. The goals of the GSoC project were:

  1. searching for bugs related to data races in Linux kernel;
  2. notifying authors and maintainers about them.

27-Aug-2017: Finding bugs related to the memory errors in Linux kernel

Anton Vasilyev has finished Google Summer of Code 2017 project "Finding bugs related to the memory errors in Linux kernel" for The Linux Foundation.
Memory errors at the kernel of operation system are a kind of bugs that lead to grave consequences but are hard to detect. Debug and disclose of kernel memory corruptions often requires specially compiled kernel.

30-Jun-2017: A.P. Ershov Informatics Conference took place in Moscow

11th A.P. Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series) has taken place in Moscow, Russia. At the conference Evgeny Novikov and Ilja Zakharov, who represent the Linux Driver Verification project, gave a talk dedicated to features and problems of application of existing static verification tools to arbitrary GNU C programs.

30-May-2017: AstraVer plugin was presented at Frama-C & SPARK Day 2017

Our experience in deductive verification of Linux kernel components using Frama-C with AstraVer plugin, including our combined model for bounded integers, was presented at Frama-C & SPARK Day 2017 held on May, 30th at Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France.

27-Apr-2017: CPAchecker-BAM-BnB and BLAST 2.7.3 at SV-COMP'2017

CPAchecker-BAM-BnB and BLAST 2.7.3 were presented at the 6th International Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) held at TACAS 2017 in Uppsala, Sweden.