A large-scale empirical study of security patches

F Li, V Paxson - … on Computer and Communications Security, 2017 - dl.acm.org
… We did not consider using patch characteristics (such as those explored in Section 5.2) as
features as we aimed to understand how security and non-security bug fixes differed along …

How long do vulnerabilities live in the code? a {Large-Scale} empirical measurement study on {FOSS} vulnerability lifetimes

N Alexopoulos, M Brack, JP Wagner, T Grube… - 31st USENIX Security …, 2022 - usenix.org
… that vulnerability lifetimes and their types are correlated. In our study, we focus on how
lifetimes differ … Thus, we believe vulnerability lifetime to be a promising software security metric. …

[PDF][PDF] Amit Levy

K Cook - 2017 - usenix.org
Kees Cook has written about security improvements to the Linux kernel. Kees works on the
… With the average lifetime of security bugs being five years [2], kernel development needs to …