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The automatic detection of software vulnerabilities is an important research problem. However, existing solutions to this problem rely on human experts to define features and often miss many vulnerabilities (i.e., incurring high false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Xinyu Ou , Hai Jin , Sujuan Wang , Zhijun Deng , Yuyi Zhong

One of the most significant challenges in the field of software code auditing is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. Every year, more and more software flaws are discovered, either internally in proprietary code or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Juan Rodriguez Cardenas , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

In software, a vulnerability is a defect in a program that attackers might utilize to acquire unauthorized access, alter system functions, and acquire information. These vulnerabilities arise from programming faults, design flaws, incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Md. Fahim Sultan , Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Mohammad Wardat , Mst Shapna Akter

Context: The IoT system infrastructure platform facility vulnerability attack has become the main battlefield of network security attacks. Most of the traditional vulnerability mining methods rely on vulnerability detection tools to realize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wen Zhou

This paper consider an MMLE (Modified Maximum Likelihood Estimation) based scheme to estimate software reliability using exponential distribution. The MMLE is one of the generalized frameworks of software reliability models of Non…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-11-09 R. Satya Prasad , Bandla Sreenivasa Rao , R. R. L. Kantam

It is increasingly suggested to identify Software Vulnerabilities (SVs) in code commits to give early warnings about potential security risks. However, there is a lack of effort to assess vulnerability-contributing commits right after they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Triet H. M. Le , David Hin , Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar

Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Sirong Chen , Shuai Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

The security guarantee of AI-enabled software systems (particularly using deep learning techniques as a functional core) is pivotal against the adversarial attacks exploiting software vulnerabilities. However, little attention has been paid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhongzheng Lai , Huaming Chen , Ruoxi Sun , Yu Zhang , Minhui Xue , Dong Yuan

Software Vulnerabilities (SVs) are increasing in complexity and scale, posing great security risks to many software systems. Given the limited resources in practice, SV assessment and prioritization help practitioners devise optimal SV…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Triet H. M. Le , Huaming Chen , M. Ali Babar

Code cloning is a common practice in software development, but it poses significant security risks by propagating vulnerabilities across cloned segments. To address this challenge, we introduce srcVul, a scalable, precise detection approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Hakam Alomari , Christopher Vendome , Hilal Gyawali

The prevalence of security vulnerabilities has prompted companies to adopt static application security testing (SAST) tools for vulnerability detection. Nevertheless, these tools frequently exhibit usability limitations, as their generic…

Software vulnerabilities continue to grow in volume and remain difficult to detect in practice. Although learning-based vulnerability detection has progressed, existing benchmarks are largely function-centric and fail to capture realistic,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Amine Lbath

In the rapidly evolving software development landscape, Python stands out for its simplicity, versatility, and extensive ecosystem. Python packages, as units of organization, reusability, and distribution, have become a pressing concern,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Haowei Quan , Junjie Wang , Xinzhe Li , Terry Yue Zhuo , Xiao Chen , Xiaoning Du

Evaluating and improving the security capabilities of code agents requires high-quality, executable vulnerability tasks. However, existing works rely on costly, unscalable manual reproduction and suffer from outdated data distributions. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianzhen Luo , Jingyuan Zhang , Shiqi Zhou , Rain Huang , Chuan Xiao , Qingfu Zhu , Zhiyuan Ma , Xing Yue , Yang Yue , Wencong Zeng , Wanxiang Che

Software Vulnerability (SV) severity assessment is a vital task for informing SV remediation and triage. Ranking of SV severity scores is often used to advise prioritization of patching efforts. However, severity assessment is a difficult…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar , Li Li

Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs) provide isolation guarantees for data in use, but their threat model does not include physical level protection and side-channel attacks. Therefore, current deployments rely on trusted cloud providers to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Filip Rezabek , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Moe Mahhouk , Frieder Erdmann , Andrew Miller

Automated vulnerability detection tools are widely used to identify security vulnerabilities in software dependencies. However, the evaluation of such tools remains challenging due to the heterogeneous structure of vulnerability data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Peter Mandl , Paul Mandl , Martin Häusl , Maximilian Auch

Context: Security Vulnerabilities (SVs) pose many serious threats to software systems. Developers usually seek solutions to addressing these SVs on developer Question and Answer (Q&A) websites. However, there is still little known about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Triet H. M. Le , Roland Croft , David Hin , M. Ali Babar

Cryptocurrencies have become very popular in recent years. Thousands of new cryptocurrencies have emerged, proposing new and novel techniques that improve on Bitcoin's core innovation of the blockchain data structure and consensus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Qingze Hum , Wei Jin Tan , Shi Ying Tey , Latasha Lenus , Ivan Homoliak , Yun Lin , Jun Sun

We constructed a newly large-scale and comprehensive C/C++ vulnerability dataset named MegaVul by crawling the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database and CVE-related open-source projects. Specifically, we collected all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chao Ni , Liyu Shen , Xiaohu Yang , Yan Zhu , Shaohua Wang