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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Study on Integrity Verification and Compatibility-Conflict Analysis for Safe Patching
Authors : Jeongmin An, Sangmoon Jung, Yoojae Won
Published in: Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
Publisher: Springer Singapore
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Abstract
A Patch Management System (PMS) distributes and manages security patches for patch-server agents after collecting the patch files from software vendors. The PMS must account for the integrity and safety of the patch files to prevent huge damage arising from possible security incidents at the agents’ environment. As software vendors cannot consider the patch compatibility of all patch-agent environments, the cause of a compatibility conflict must be analyzed when a patch fails. Existing PMSs manually verify the integrity of the patch files in a test environment. This study presents a method to automate patch testing and application, while monitoring the file modification, and reduce the time needed to analyze compatibility conflicts by using the modified file information.