Address Sanitizer Skill

Trit: -1 (MINUS) Category: testing-handbook-skills Author: Trail of Bits Source: trailofbits/skills License: AGPL-3.0

Description

Use AddressSanitizer to detect memory safety bugs in C/C++ programs. Identifies use-after-free, buffer overflow, memory leaks, and other memory errors.

When to Use

This is a Trail of Bits security skill. Refer to the original repository for detailed usage guidelines and examples.

See: https://github.com/trailofbits/skills

Related Skills

• audit-context-building
• codeql
• semgrep
• variant-analysis

SDF Interleaving

This skill connects to Software Design for Flexibility (Hanson & Sussman, 2021):

Primary Chapter: 5. Evaluation

Concepts: eval, apply, interpreter, environment

GF(3) Balanced Triad

address-sanitizer (○) + SDF.Ch5 (−) + [balancer] (+) = 0

Skill Trit: 0 (ERGODIC - coordination)

Connection Pattern

Evaluation interprets expressions. This skill processes or generates evaluable forms.