Clonewise - detecting package-level clones using machine learning
Cesare, Silvio, Xiang, Yang and Zhang, Jun 2013, Clonewise - detecting package-level clones using machine learning. In Zia, Tanveer, Zomaya, Albert, Varadharajan, Vijay and Mao, Morley (ed), Security and privacy in communication networks, Springer International Publishing, Berlin, Germany, pp.197-215, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-04283-1_13.
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Clonewise - detecting package-level clones using machine learning
Developers sometimes maintain an internal copy of another software or fork development of an existing project. This practice can lead to software vulnerabilities when the embedded code is not kept up to date with upstream sources. We propose an automated solution to identify clones of packages without any prior knowledge of these relationships. We then correlate clones with vulnerability information to identify outstanding security problems. This approach motivates software maintainers to avoid using cloned packages and link against system wide libraries. We propose over 30 novel features that enable us to use to use pattern classification to accurately identify package-level clones. To our knowledge, we are the first to consider clone detection as a classification problem. Our results show our system, Clonewise, compares well to manually tracked databases. Based on our work, over 30 unknown package clones and vulnerabilities have been identified and patched.
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This paper was presented at the International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (9th : 2013 : Sydney, NSW)
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