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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
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| ## Description |
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| This dataset accompanies the paper *Why Not Fix It Once and for All? An Empirical Study of Multiple Patches for Vulnerability Fixes in Open-Source Software*. It contains 1,581 manually annotated and cleaned records of vulnerabilities fixed by multiple patches. |
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| ## Data Structure |
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| MultiPatch is stored in `jsonl` format. Each line corresponds to one CVE and contains the following keys. |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "CVE_ID": "the CVE identifier, e.g. CVE-2021-3156, type: str", |
| "category": "one or more categories from the list below, type: str", |
| "patches": [ |
| { |
| "commit_url": "URL of the fix commit, type: str", |
| "diff_code": "the diff code of the patch, type: str", |
| "owner": "the owner id of the repository, type: str", |
| "repo_name": "the repository name, type: str", |
| "commit_message": "commit message, type: str" |
| } |
| ] |
| } |
| ``` |
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| **Category.** A CVE may belong to one or more of the following categories: |
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| - `Fixes for Multiple Locations Across Different Branches or Projects` |
| - `Incomplete Fixes` |
| - `Fix and Documentation Updates` |
| - `Bug-Introducing Fixes` |
| - `Multi-Location Fixes` |
| - `Workaround and Formal Fix` |
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| ## Citation |
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| ```bibtex |
| @article{qi2026not, |
| title={Why Not Fix It Once and for All? An Empirical Study of Multiple Patches for Vulnerability Fixes in Open-Source Software}, |
| author={Qi, Weiliang and Li, Youpeng and Wang, Xinda}, |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.13206}, |
| year={2026} |
| } |
| ``` |
