Hi Jordan,

1) Detection of the strings will be the really difficult part (It is likely 
impossible to do generically). A few questions to consider. How do you 
determine if a string was "obtained from the outside"? How do you determine 
if a string was passed through your sanitizing function? Normally to 
determine the answers to these questions takes a skilled programmer 
examining the code, and the control flow. This is typically not something 
that can be easily automated.

2) Modifying the assembly to force the string through a method call is 
certainly do-able with Mono.Cecil. 

On Tuesday, January 2, 2018 at 9:37:53 AM UTC-8, Jordan Myers wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to Cecil and Mono/.NET in general and I just wanted to make sure 
> that it would support what I'm trying to do. I would like to create a tool 
> that analyzes the .NET assembly to make sure that strings obtained from the 
> outside world (database, user-input data, etc) is passed through a certain 
> sanitizing function I designed. I would like to (1) detect whether the 
> sanitizing function is used, and (2) automatically change the assembly so 
> that it uses the function where it is missing. Is this possible with Cecil? 
> What would be the best way to accomplish this? Ideally, this would work in 
> the full .NET standard as well by running on a Windows platform.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Jordan
>

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