• DOI:10.1145/1920261.1920299
Corpus ID: 207184232

Familiarity breeds contempt: the honeymoon effect and the role of legacy code in zero-day vulnerabilities

@inproceedings{Clark2010FamiliarityBC,
  title={Familiarity breeds contempt: the honeymoon effect and the role of legacy code in zero-day vulnerabilities},
  author={S. Clark and S. Frei and Matt Blaze and J. Smith},
  booktitle={ACSAC '10},
  year={2010}
}

S. Clark, S. Frei, +1 author J. Smith

Published in ACSAC '10 2010

Computer Science

Work on security vulnerabilities in software has primarily focused on three points in the software life-cycle: (1) finding and removing software defects, (2) patching or hardening software after vulnerabilities have been discovered, and (3) measuring the rate of vulnerability exploitation. This paper examines an earlier period in the software vulnerability life-cycle, starting from the release date of a version through to the disclosure of the fourth vulnerability, with a particular focus on… CONTINUE READING

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