The Extent of Orphan Vulnerabilities from Code Reuse in Open Source SoftwareNominated for Distinguished Paper
Wed 11 May 2022 22:15 - 22:20 at ICSE room 2-even hours - Software Security 6 Chair(s): Travis Breaux
Motivation: A key premise of open source software is the ability to copy code to other open source projects (white-box reuse). Such copying accelerates development of new projects, but the code flaws in the original projects, such as vulnerabilities, may also spread even if fixed in the projects from where the code was appropriated. The extent of the spread of vulnerabilities through code reuse, the potential impact of such spread, or avenues for mitigating risk of these secondary vulnerabilities has not been studied in the context of a nearly complete collection of open source code.
Aim: We aim to find ways to detect the white-box reuse induced vulnerabilities, determine how prevalent they are, and explore how they may be addressed.
Method: We rely on World of Code infrastructure that provides a curated and cross-referenced collection of nearly all open source software to conduct a case study of a few known vulnerabilities. To conduct our case study we develop a tool, VDiOS, to help identify and fix white-box-reuse-induced vulnerabilities that have been already patched in the original projects (orphan vulnerabilities).
Results: We find numerous instances of orphan vulnerabilities even in currently active and in highly popular projects (over 1K stars). Even apparently inactive projects are still publicly available for others to use and spread the vulnerability further. The often long delay in fixing orphan vulnerabilities even in highly popular projects increases the chances of it spreading to new projects. We provided patches to a number of project maintainers and found that only a small percentage accepted and applied the patch. We hope that VDiOS will lead to further study and mitigation of risks from orphan vulnerabilities and other orphan code flaws.
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