ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Thu 1 May 2025 15:00 - 15:15 at 212 - Analysis 3 Chair(s): Shaowei Wang

The integrity of software builds is fundamental to the security of the software supply chain. While Thompson first raised the potential for attacks on build infrastructure in 1984, limited attention has been given to build integrity in the past 40 years, enabling recent attacks on SolarWinds, event-stream, and xz. The best-known defense against build system attacks is creating \emph{reproducible builds}; however, achieving them can be complex for both technical and social reasons and thus is often viewed as impractical to obtain. In this paper, we analyze reproducibility of builds in a novel context: reusable \emph{components} distributed as \emph{packages} in six popular software ecosystems (npm, Maven, PyPI, Go, RubyGems, and Cargo). Our quantitative study on a representative sample of 4000 packages in each ecosystem raises concerns: Rates of reproducible builds vary widely between ecosystems, with some ecosystems having all packages reproducible whereas others have \issues in nearly every package. However, upon deeper investigation, we identified that with relatively straightforward infrastructure configuration and patching of build tools, we can achieve very high rates of reproducible builds in all studied ecosystems. We conclude that if the ecosystems adopt our suggestions, the build process of published packages can be independently confirmed for nearly all packages without individual developer actions, and doing so will prevent significant future software supply chain attacks.

Thu 1 May

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14:00 - 15:30
Analysis 3Research Track / Journal-first Papers at 212
Chair(s): Shaowei Wang University of Manitoba
14:00
15m
Talk
Boosting Path-Sensitive Value Flow Analysis via Removal of Redundant Summaries
Research Track
Yongchao WANG Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yuandao Cai Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Charles Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Dockerfile Flakiness: Characterization and Repair
Research Track
Taha Shabani University of British Columbia, Noor Nashid University of British Columbia, Parsa Alian University of British Columbia, Ali Mesbah University of British Columbia
Pre-print
14:30
15m
Talk
Evaluating Garbage Collection Performance Across Managed Language Runtimes
Research Track
Yicheng Wang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wensheng Dou Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yu Liang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yi Wang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wei Wang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jun Wei Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tao Huang Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences
14:45
15m
Talk
Module-Aware Context Sensitive Pointer AnalysisArtifact-FunctionalArtifact-AvailableArtifact-Reusable
Research Track
Haofeng Li SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Chenghang Shi SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Jie Lu SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Lian Li Institute of Computing Technology at Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zixuan Zhao Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd
File Attached
15:00
15m
Talk
An Empirical Study on Reproducible Packaging in Open-Source EcosystemsArtifact-Available
Research Track
Giacomo Benedetti University of Genoa, Oreofe Solarin Case Western Reserve University, Courtney Miller Carnegie Mellon University, Greg Tystahl NCSU, William Enck North Carolina State University, Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University, Alexandros Kapravelos NCSU, Alessio Merlo CASD - School of Advanced Defense Studies, Luca Verderame University of Genoa
15:15
15m
Talk
T-Rec: Fine-Grained Language-Agnostic Program Reduction Guided by Lexical Syntax
Journal-first Papers
Zhenyang Xu University of Waterloo, Yongqiang Tian , Mengxiao Zhang , Jiarui Zhang University of Waterloo, Puzhuo Liu Ant Group & Tsinghua University, Yu Jiang Tsinghua University, Chengnian Sun University of Waterloo