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Modeling the delivery of security advisories and CVEs

2017; ComSIS Consortium; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2298/csis161010010r

2406-1018

Jukka Ruohonen, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Ville Leppänen,

Information and Cyber Security

This empirical paper models three structural factors that are hypothesized to affect the turnaround times between the publication of security advisories and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). The three structural factors are: (i) software product age at the time of advisory release; (ii) severity of vulnerabilities coordinated; and (iii) amounts of CVEs referenced in advisories. Although all three factors are observed to provide only limited information for statistically predicting the turnaround times in a dataset comprised of Microsoft, openSUSE, and Ubuntu operating system products, the paper outlines new research directions for better understanding the current problems related to vulnerability coordination.