A New Taxonomy of Linux/Unix Operating System and Network Vulnerabilities

A New Taxonomy of Linux/Unix Operating System and Network Vulnerabilities

This paper analyzes the existing taxonomies of software vulnerability, describes the actuality of researches on software vulnerability. Then this paper lists the major characters describing software vulnerabilities, which include cause, location, impact, remedy, verification, detect and attack characters. For Unix/Linux operation systems, this paper proposes a two-dimensional taxonomy of software vulnerability based on location and cause attributes, describes the choosing reason of taxonomic attributes, and the classification scheme is described in detail. Design vulnerabilities are important class of vulnerabilities, but no classification identifies the types of design vulnerabilities in further detail yet, so this paper pays attention to design vulnerabilities.