Tracing Vulnerable Code Lineage

This paper presents results from the MSR 2021 Hackathon. Our team investigates files/projects that contain known security vulnerabilities and how widespread they are throughout repositories in open source software. These security vulnerabilities can potentially be propagated through code reuse even...

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Published in2021 IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) pp. 621 - 623
Main Authors Reid, David, Eng, Kalvin, Bogart, Chris, Tutko, Adam
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2021
Subjects
CVE
Data mining
Github
Open source software
Security
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Summary:This paper presents results from the MSR 2021 Hackathon. Our team investigates files/projects that contain known security vulnerabilities and how widespread they are throughout repositories in open source software. These security vulnerabilities can potentially be propagated through code reuse even when the vulnerability is fixed in different versions of the code. We utilize the World of Code [1] infrastructure to discover file-level duplication of code from a nearly complete collection of open source software. This paper describes a method and set of tools to find all open source projects that use known vulnerable files and any previous revisions of those files.
ISSN:2574-3864
DOI:10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00087