An Empirical Study of DLL Injection Bugs in the Firefox Ecosystem

Research questions

• RQ1: What is the characteristics of the bugs caused by DLL injections?
• RQ2: Which factors triggered the DLL injection bugs?
• RQ3: Whatwouldbethepotentialsolutionstoreducesuch DLL injection bugs?

Data explanation

• print_bugzilla_query.py: Script to query DLL injection related bugs from July 2015 to August 2017.
• get_bug_data.py: Script to calculate metrics.
• manual_classification.csv: Raw results from the above query and manual classification on the bugs.
• bug_type.csv: Manual classification on the types of the bugs.
• bug_reproducibility.csv: Manual classification on the reproducibility of the bugs.
• machine_extracted_metrics.csv: Metrics that were automatically extracted from bug reports.