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On average, 71% of the code in typical Java projects comes from open-source software (OSS) dependencies, making OSS dependencies the dominant component of modern software code bases. This high degree of OSS reliance comes with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Stefan Schott , Serena Elisa Ponta , Wolfram Fischer , Jonas Klauke , Eric Bodden

Android is the most used Operating System worldwide for mobile devices, with hundreds of thousands of apps downloaded daily. Although these apps are primarily written in Java and Kotlin, advanced functionalities such as graphics or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Silvia Lucia Sanna , Diego Soi , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Fumera , Giorgio Giacinto

The use of open-source software (OSS) is ever-increasing, and so is the number of open-source vulnerabilities being discovered and publicly disclosed. The gains obtained from the reuse of community-developed libraries may be offset by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Serena E. Ponta , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta

Context. Software reusability mechanisms, like inheritance and delegation in Object-Oriented programming, are widely recognized as key instruments of software design. These are used to reduce the risks of source code being affected by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Giammaria Giordano , Gerardo Festa , Gemma Catolino , Fabio Palomba , Filomena Ferrucci , Carmine Gravino

To avoid software vulnerabilities, organizations are shifting security to earlier stages of the software development, such as at code review time. In this paper, we aim to understand the developers' perspective on assessing software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Larissa Braz , Alberto Bacchelli

Third-party libraries are a central building block to develop software systems. However, outdated third-party libraries are commonly used, and developers are usually less aware of the potential risks. Therefore, a quantitative and holistic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Ying Wang , Bihuan Chen , Kaifeng Huang , Bowen Shi , Congying Xu , Xin Peng , Yang Liu , Yijian Wu

Many tools and libraries are readily available to build and operate distributed Web applications. While the setup of operational environments is comparatively easy, practice shows that their continuous secure operation is more difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Matteo Maria Casalino , Michele Mangili , Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta

Static security analysis is a widely used technique for detecting software vulnerabilities across a wide range of weaknesses, application domains, and programming languages. While prior work surveyed static analyzes for specific weaknesses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Kevin Hermann , Sven Peldszus , Thorsten Berger

Open-source software supply chain security relies heavily on assessing affected versions of library vulnerabilities. While prior studies have leveraged exploits for verifying vulnerability affected versions, they point out a key limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zirui Chen , Qi Zhan , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Open source software vulnerabilities pose significant security risks to downstream applications. While vulnerability databases provide valuable information for mitigation, many security patches are released silently in new commits of OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Yiran Cheng , Ting Zhang , Lwin Khin Shar , Zhe Lang , David Lo , Shichao Lv , Dongliang Fang , Zhiqiang Shi , Limin Sun

Security is a critical issue of the modern file and storage systems, it is imperative to protect the stored data from unauthorized access. We have developed a file security system named as Java File Security System (JFSS) [1] that guarantee…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Brijender Kahanwal , Dr. Tejinder Pal Singh , Dr. R. K. Tuteja

In the domain of Software Engineering, program analysis and understanding has been considered to be a very challenging task since decade, as it demands dedicated time and efforts. The analysis of source code may occasionally be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Safeeullah Soomro , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Zainab Alansari , Mahdi H Miraz

This paper presents an integrity checker of JAVA P2P distributed system with auto source code composition. JAVA distributed system must guarantee the integrity of program itself and the system components of JAVA virtual machine against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Lican Huang

Background: Despite the widespread use of automated security defect detection tools, software projects still contain many security defects that could result in serious damage. Such tools are largely context-insensitive and may not cover all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jiaxin Yu , Liming Fu , Peng Liang , Amjed Tahir , Mojtaba Shahin

Version control systems for source code, such as Git, are key tools in modern software development environments. Many developers use online services, such as GitHub or GitLab, for collaborative software development. While software projects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alexander Krause , Jan H. Klemmer , Nicolas Huaman , Dominik Wermke , Yasemin Acar , Sascha Fahl

Software obfuscation or obscuring a software is an approach to defeat the practice of reverse engineering a software for using its functionality illegally in the development of another software. Java applications are more amenable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-04-23 Praveen Sivadasan , P Sojan Lal

As the role of information and communication technologies gradually increases in our lives, source code security becomes a significant issue to protect against malicious attempts Furthermore with the advent of data-driven techniques, there…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Maryam Taeb

Web services are becoming business-critical components, often deployed with critical software bugs that can be maliciously explored. Web vulnerability scanners allow the detection of security vulnerabilities in web services by stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Osejobe Ehichoya , Chinwuba Christian Nnaemeka

Software reuse may result in software bloat when significant portions of application dependencies are effectively unused. Several tools exist to remove unused (byte)code from an application or its dependencies, thus producing smaller…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Serena Elisa Ponta , Wolfram Fischer , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta

With one of the largest available collection of reusable packages, the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js is one of the most popular programming application. With recent work showing evidence that known vulnerabilities are prevalent in…