What is Gality?

GaLity is an open-source implementation to compute metrics on sets of gadgets which has been developed by Andreas Follner. If you use Gality in your research, please cite the following paper:

Andreas Follner, Alexandre Bartel, Eric Bodden: Analyzing the Gadgets - Towards a Metric to Measure Gadget Quality, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS), London, UK, 2016 [bib] [pdf]

How to compile Gality?

With Eclipse

The easiest way is to import the git project into Eclipse and to let it compile it automatically.

Command Line

You can also compile the program on the command line:

$ cd gality
$ javac -d ./bin/ src/gality/Program.java

How to run Gality?

The first argument is the file containing the set of gadgets generated by ROPgadget. The second argument is Gality's output file.

Eclipse

You can use a "run configuration" to give parameters to gality and then run gality.

Command Line

$ ROPgadget --binary /usr/bin/whereis > /tmp/whereis.gadgets
$ java -cp ./bin/ gality.Program /tmp/whereis.gadgets /tmp/whereis.gadgets.metrics