nwpu-ist / security-tactics-vulnerabilities

This repository contains the dataset for the paper "Understanding Software Vulnerabilities Related to Architectural Security Tactics: An Empirical Investigation of Chromium, PHP and Thunderbird"

Description

This repository contains the dataset for the paper:

• J. C. S. Santos, A. Peruma, M. Mirakhorli, M. Galstery, J. V. Vidal and A. Sejfia, "Understanding Software Vulnerabilities Related to Architectural Security Tactics: An Empirical Investigation of Chromium, PHP and Thunderbird," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), Gothenburg, 2017, pp. 69-78.

@inproceedings{7930201, 
  author={J. C. S. {Santos} and A. {Peruma} and M. {Mirakhorli} and M. {Galster} and J. V. {Vidal} and A. {Sejfia}}, 
  title={Understanding Software Vulnerabilities Related to Architectural Security Tactics: An Empirical Investigation of Chromium, PHP and Thunderbird}, 
  year={2017}, 
  volume={}, 
  number={}, 
  booktitle={2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)},   
  pages={69-78},
}

Datasets

The data collected for each case study can be accessed in the CSV files:

• chromium-datasets.csv
• php-datasets.csv
• thunderbird-datasets.csv

These csv files have the following columns:

• cve_id: The unique identifier of the vulnerability in the National Vulnerability Database;
• date_of_report: The time when the Vulnerability was first reported;
• cve_type: Indicates whether the vulnerability (CVE) is TACTICAL or NON-TACTICAL.
• root_cause: In case of tactical vulnerabilities, this field indicates the root cause (given as an id to the CWE dictionary);
• total_impacted_files: Number of files that were affected (i.e., changed/added/removed) to fix the vulnerability;
• code_churn: Number of lines changed in the patch released to fix the vulnerability;
• bugtrack_url: The URL to the bug entry in the Issue Tracker of the project related to that vulnerability or a URL to a place that reports the vulnerability (example: a mailing list, such as http://marc.info/)
• commit_url: The URL(s) to the Web page that contains the committed code to the patch that fixed the issue;