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CHRONOS: Time-Aware Zero-Shot Identification of Libraries from Vulnerability Reports

Y Lyu, T Le-Cong, HJ Kang, R Widyasari, Z Zhao, XBD Le, M Li, D Lo

Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering | IEEE COMPUTER SOC | Published : 2023

Abstract

Tools that alert developers about library vulnerabilities depend on accurate, up-to-date vulnerability databases which are maintained by security researchers. These databases record the libraries related to each vulnerability. However, the vulnerability reports may not explicitly list every library and human analysis is required to determine all the relevant libraries. Human analysis may be slow and expensive, which motivates the need for automated approaches. Researchers and practitioners have proposed to automatically identify libraries from vulnerability reports using extreme multi-label learning (XML). While state-of-the-art XML techniques showed promising performance, their experimental..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This project is supported by the National Research Foundation, Singapore and National University of Singapore through its National Satellite of Excellence in Trustworthy Software Systems (NSOE-TSS) office under the Trustworthy Computing for Secure Smart Nation Grant (TCSSNG) award no. NSOE-TSS2020-02. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of National Research Foundation, Singapore and National University of Singapore (including its National Satellite of Excellence in Trustworthy Software Systems (NSOE-TSS) office). Xuan-Bach D. Le is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, project number DE220101057.