Impact assessment for vulnerabilities in open-source software libraries
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| author | Plate, Henrik Ponta, Serena Elisa Sabetta, Antonino |
| author_facet | Plate, Henrik Ponta, Serena Elisa Sabetta, Antonino |
| contents | Software applications integrate more and more open-source software (OSS) to benefit from code reuse. As a drawback, each vulnerability discovered in bundled OSS potentially affects the application. Upon the disclosure of every new vulnerability, the application vendor has to decide whether it is exploitable in his particular usage context, hence, whether users require an urgent application patch containing a non-vulnerable version of the OSS. Current decision making is mostly based on high-level vulnerability descriptions and expert knowledge, thus, effort intense and error prone. This paper proposes a pragmatic approach to facilitate the impact assessment, describes a proof-of-concept for Java, and examines one example vulnerability as case study. The approach is independent from specific kinds of vulnerabilities or programming languages and can deliver immediate results. |
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| spellingShingle | Impact assessment for vulnerabilities in open-source software libraries Plate, Henrik Ponta, Serena Elisa Sabetta, Antonino Cryptography and Security Software Engineering Software applications integrate more and more open-source software (OSS) to benefit from code reuse. As a drawback, each vulnerability discovered in bundled OSS potentially affects the application. Upon the disclosure of every new vulnerability, the application vendor has to decide whether it is exploitable in his particular usage context, hence, whether users require an urgent application patch containing a non-vulnerable version of the OSS. Current decision making is mostly based on high-level vulnerability descriptions and expert knowledge, thus, effort intense and error prone. This paper proposes a pragmatic approach to facilitate the impact assessment, describes a proof-of-concept for Java, and examines one example vulnerability as case study. The approach is independent from specific kinds of vulnerabilities or programming languages and can deliver immediate results. |
| title | Impact assessment for vulnerabilities in open-source software libraries |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04971 |