Fri 27 Aug 2021 07:00 - 07:10 - Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2 Chair(s): Ramy Shahin
Noise in software patches impacts their understanding, analysis, and use for tasks such as change prediction. Although several approaches have been developed to identify noise in patches, this issue has persisted. An analysis of a dataset of security patches for the Tomcat web server, which we further expanded with security patches from five additional systems, uncovered several kinds of previously unreported noise which we call nonessential casualty changes. These are changes that themselves do not alter the logic of the program but are necessitated by other changes made in the patch. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive taxonomy of casualty changes. We then develop CasCADe, an automated technique for automatically identifying casualty changes. We evaluate CasCADe with several publicly available datasets of patches and tools that focus on them. Our results show that CasCADe is highly accurate, that the kinds of noise it identifies occur relatively commonly in patches, and that removing this noise improves upon the evaluation results of a previously published change-based approach.
Thu 26 AugDisplayed time zone: Athens change
19:00 - 20:00 | Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2Research Papers / Demonstrations +12h Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg | ||
19:00 10mPaper | Identifying Casualty Changes in Software Patches Research Papers Adriana Sejfia University of Southern California, Yixue Zhao University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California DOI Media Attached | ||
19:10 10mPaper | ACHyb: A Hybrid Analysis Approach to Detect Kernel Access Control Vulnerabilities Research Papers Yang Hu The University of Texas at Austin, Wenxi Wang University of Texas at Austin, Casen Hunger University of Texas at Austin, Riley Wood University of Texas at Austin, Sarfraz Khurshid University of Texas at Austin, Mohit Tiwari University of Texas at Austin DOI | ||
19:20 5mPaper | ICME: An Informed Consent Management Engine for Conformance in Smart Building Environments Demonstrations Chehara Pathmabandu Monash University, John Grundy Monash University, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri CSIRO’s Data61, Zubair Baig Deakin University DOI Media Attached | ||
19:25 5mPaper | CrossVul: A Cross-Language Vulnerability Dataset with Commit Data Demonstrations Georgios Nikitopoulos University of Thessaly, Konstantina Dritsa Athens University of Economics and Business, Panos Louridas Athens University of Economics and Business, Dimitris Mitropoulos University of Athens DOI | ||
19:30 30mLive Q&A | Q&A (Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2) Research Papers | ||
Fri 27 AugDisplayed time zone: Athens change
07:00 - 08:00 | Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2Demonstrations / Research Papers Chair(s): Ramy Shahin University of Toronto | ||
07:00 10mPaper | Identifying Casualty Changes in Software Patches Research Papers Adriana Sejfia University of Southern California, Yixue Zhao University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Nenad Medvidović University of Southern California DOI Media Attached | ||
07:10 10mPaper | ACHyb: A Hybrid Analysis Approach to Detect Kernel Access Control Vulnerabilities Research Papers Yang Hu The University of Texas at Austin, Wenxi Wang University of Texas at Austin, Casen Hunger University of Texas at Austin, Riley Wood University of Texas at Austin, Sarfraz Khurshid University of Texas at Austin, Mohit Tiwari University of Texas at Austin DOI | ||
07:20 5mPaper | ICME: An Informed Consent Management Engine for Conformance in Smart Building Environments Demonstrations Chehara Pathmabandu Monash University, John Grundy Monash University, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri CSIRO’s Data61, Zubair Baig Deakin University DOI Media Attached | ||
07:25 5mPaper | CrossVul: A Cross-Language Vulnerability Dataset with Commit Data Demonstrations Georgios Nikitopoulos University of Thessaly, Konstantina Dritsa Athens University of Economics and Business, Panos Louridas Athens University of Economics and Business, Dimitris Mitropoulos University of Athens DOI | ||
07:30 30mLive Q&A | Q&A (Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2) Research Papers | ||