Semantic-Enhanced Static Vulnerability Detection in Baseband Firmware

Cellular network is the infrastructure of mobile communication. Baseband firmware, which carries the implementation of cellular network, has critical security impact on its vulnerabilities. To handle the inherent complexity in cellular communication, cellular protocols are usually implemented as message-centric systems, containing the common message processing phase and message specific handling phase. Though the latter takes most of the code (99.67%) and exposed vulnerabilities (74%), it is rather under-studied: existing detectors either cannot sufficiently analyze it or focused on analyzing the former phase.