Open source software security vulnerability detection based on dynamic behavior features

PLoS One. 2019 Aug 23;14(8):e0221530. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221530. eCollection 2019.

Abstract

Open source software has been widely used in various industries due to its openness and flexibility, but it also brings potential security problems. Therefore, security analysis is required before using open source software. The current mainstream open source software vulnerability analysis technology is based on source code, and there are problems such as false positives, false negatives and restatements. In order to solve the problems, based on the further study of behavior feature extraction and vulnerability detection technology, a method of using dynamic behavior features to detect open source software vulnerabilities is proposed. Firstly, the relationship between open source software vulnerability and API call sequence is studied. Then, the behavioral risk vulnerability database of open source software is proposed as a support for vulnerability detection. In addition, the CNN-IndRNN classification model is constructed by improving the Independently Recurrent Neural Net-work (IndRNN) algorithm and applies to open source software security vulnerability detection. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed open source software security vulnerability detection method based on dynamic behavior features.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Security*
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Software*
  • Time Factors

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the State Grid Corporation Headquarters Science and Technology Project "Research and Application of Key Technologies for Open Source Software Security Monitoring" (SGFJXT00YJJS1800074).