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Improving vulnerability discovery models

Ozment, 2007

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620876802083203590
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Ozment A
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Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Quality of protection

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Security researchers are applying software reliability models to vulnerability data, in an attempt to model the vulnerability discovery process. I show that most current work on these vulnerability discovery models (VDMs) is theoretically unsound. I propose a standard set of …
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