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Subject: RE: [sarif] Change bars for Issue #158 (result.correlationId)
If you think you have a finished fingerprint that is extremely resilient, agree you should populate it. Perhaps we can clarify the spec text to note that the SHOULD NOT designation here is to discourage per-tool fingerprinting (in favor
of standards/SARIF-driven fingerprinting, which uses a broad range of SARIF data in concert with partial fingerprints). I agree with Larry’s point that, in the main, SARIF producers NEED NOT populate it. But maybe we’re too draconian with SHALL NOT. If you
think you can compute a finished fingerprint, why not? On the other hand, what we really want tools producers to do is to think about their specific partial fingerprints that derive from a tool’s particular understanding of things (and which excludes things
like file locations which are ‘understood’ already in the format because we have placeholders for them). Your item #2 sounds like a hierarchical tag to me, i.e., you would tag results with the various contributors to the finding, organized under a common root so that you can treat them as a set. From: sarif@lists.oasis-open.org <sarif@lists.oasis-open.org>
On Behalf Of O'Neil, Yekaterina Tsipenyuk Hi Larry,
k From: Larry Golding (Comcast) [mailto:larrygolding@comcast.net]
Michael – please read this carefully to see if I’ve correctly conveyed your philosophy for analysis tool design. Hi Katrina, 1. First of all, don’t worry, you can indeed populate
result.fingerprints. “SHOULD NOT” means “don’t do it unless you have a good reason,” and I guess your tool has a good reason
😊 The reason we said “SHOULD NOT” is related to a tool design philosophy that Michael has advocated. I’m not sure how explicitly we have discussed it. We want to make it as easy as possible for vendors to build SARIF-compliant tools. So we
distinguish between properties that the analysis tool is “uniquely qualified” (my words) to fill, and properties that post-processors and the result management system (RMS) can fill, because they are not tool-specific. An example of a “non-tool-specific” property
is run.baselineInstanceGuid. We wouldn’t want every tool to have to discover the baseline run, or to provide a command line argument to specify it. Michael and I considered
result.fingerprints to fall into the “non-tool-specific” category as well. The RMS can compute the fingerprint in the same way for all tools. A tool that has special fingerprinting requirements can use
result.partialFingerprints to convey that information to the RMS. The question as I see it is how to tell a tool vendor “Don’t worry! Someone else can fill out this field, so you don’t need to bother.” Perhaps saying that the tool SHOULD NOT fill the field isn’t the best way to convey that. 2. Multiple rule ids: I’d like to know more about this. It’s possible that we don’t mean the same thing by the word “rule”. SARIF’s Terminology section defines it as a “specific criterion for correctness verified by a static analysis tool.” So from SARIF’s point of view, if a programming artifact violates more than one “criterion for correctness,” that means they are two distinct results. One criterion for correctness might be “Don’t use weak hash algorithms.” Another might
be “Don’t use tainted data without sanitizing it”. SARIF wouldn’t put both of those in the same result, even if the same simulated execution trace (code flow) revealed both problems. Could you give me an example of a single result (or “finding,” or “observation”) made by Fortify that violates more than one criterion for correctness? Larry From: sarif@lists.oasis-open.org <sarif@lists.oasis-open.org>
On Behalf Of O'Neil, Yekaterina Tsipenyuk Sorry for not bringing these up earlier, but I have a couple of comments:
Thanks! k From: sarif@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:sarif@lists.oasis-open.org]
On Behalf Of Larry Golding (Comcast) Normally I incorporate amendments adopted by the TC into the provisional draft without asking for further review. In the case of
Issue #158 (Introduce result.correlationId and clarify purpose of result.fingerprints array), the changes were substantive enough that I wanted to show them to you explicitly. I’ve attached a change-barred version of the provisional draft that shows the
changes I made based on the TC’s feedback. I am going to merge these changes, along with the other changes we adopted today. But if you disagree with the way I incorporated the feedback on #158, now’s your chance to tell me. Thanks, Larry |
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