Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations
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Software Engineering Institute
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CMU/SEI-2014-TN-008DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
10.1184/R1/6574265.v1Topic or Tag
Abstract
Coding errors cause the majority of software vulnerabilities. For example, 64% of the nearly 2,500 vulnerabilities in the National Vulnerability Database in 2004 were caused by programming errors. The CERT Division’s Source Code Analysis Laboratory (SCALe) offers conformance testing of C language software systems against the CERT C Secure Coding Standard and the CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java, using various analysis tools available from commercial software vendors. Unfortunately, the current SCALe analysis process and tools do not collect any statistics about the accuracy of the code analysis tools or about the coding violations they flag, such as frequency of occurrence. This paper describes the approach used to add the ability to collect and statistically analyze data regarding coding violations and tool characteristics along with the initial results. The collected data will be used over time to improve the effectiveness of the SCALe analysis.
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Cite This Technical Note
Plakosh, D., Seacord, R., Stoddard, R., Svoboda, D., & Zubrow, D. (2014, June 27). Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations. (Technical Note CMU/SEI-2014-TN-008). Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6574265.v1.
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title={Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations},
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Plakosh, Daniel, Robert Seacord, Robert Stoddard, David Svoboda, and David Zubrow. "Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations." (CMU/SEI-2014-TN-008). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, June 27, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6574265.v1.
D. Plakosh, R. Seacord, R. Stoddard, D. Svoboda, and D. Zubrow, "Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2014-TN-008, 27-Jun-2014 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6574265.v1. [Accessed: 21-Dec-2024].
Plakosh, Daniel, Robert Seacord, Robert Stoddard, David Svoboda, and David Zubrow. "Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations." (Technical Note CMU/SEI-2014-TN-008). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 27 Jun. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6574265.v1. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
Plakosh, Daniel; Seacord, Robert; Stoddard, Robert; Svoboda, David; & Zubrow, David. Improving the Automated Detection and Analysis of Secure Coding Violations. CMU/SEI-2014-TN-008. Software Engineering Institute. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6574265.v1