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ESEC/FSE 2021
Thu 19 - Sat 28 August 2021 Clowdr Platform
Thu 26 Aug 2021 19:00 - 19:10 - Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2 Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli
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 Aug

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19:00 - 20:00
Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2Research Papers / Demonstrations +12h
Chair(s): Domenico Bianculli University of Luxembourg
19:00
10m
Paper
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
10m
Paper
ACHyb: A Hybrid Analysis Approach to Detect Kernel Access Control VulnerabilitiesArtifacts AvailableArtifacts Reusable
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
5m
Paper
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
5m
Paper
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
30m
Live Q&A
Q&A (Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2)
Research Papers

Fri 27 Aug

Displayed time zone: Athens change

07:00 - 08:00
Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2Demonstrations / Research Papers
Chair(s): Ramy Shahin University of Toronto
07:00
10m
Paper
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
10m
Paper
ACHyb: A Hybrid Analysis Approach to Detect Kernel Access Control VulnerabilitiesArtifacts AvailableArtifacts Reusable
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
5m
Paper
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
5m
Paper
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
30m
Live Q&A
Q&A (Dependability—Vulnerabilities 2)
Research Papers