An idea of an independent validation of vulnerability discovery models

  • Authors:
  • Viet Hung Nguyen;Fabio Massacci

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy;Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ESSoS'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering Secure Software and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Having a precise vulnerability discovery model (VDM) would provide a useful quantitative insight to assess software security. Thus far, several models have been proposed with some evidence supporting their goodness-of-fit. In this work we describe an independent validation of the applicability of these models to the vulnerabilities of the popular browsers Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. The result shows that some VMDs do not simply fit the data, while for others there are both positive and negative evidences.