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Recent advancements in generative speech models based on audio-text prompts have enabled remarkable innovations like high-quality zero-shot text-to-speech. However, existing models still face limitations in handling diverse audio-text…

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Software security is becoming a high priority for both large companies and start-ups alike due to the increasing potential for harm that vulnerabilities and breaches carry with them. However, attaining robust security assurance while…

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Despite the immense popularity of the Automated Program Repair (APR) field, the question of patch validation is still open. Most of the present-day approaches follow the so-called Generate-and-Validate approach, where first a candidate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Viktor Csuvik , Dániel Horváth , Márk Lajkó , László Vidács

Open Source Software (OSS) security and resilience are worldwide phenomena hampering economic and technological innovation. OSS vulnerabilities can cause unauthorized access, data breaches, network disruptions, and privacy violations,…

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Vulnerabilities severely threaten software systems, making the timely application of security patches crucial for mitigating attacks. However, software vendors often silently patch vulnerabilities with limited disclosure, where Security…

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Context: Software security patch management purports to support the process of patching known software security vulnerabilities. Given the increasing recognition of the importance of software security patch management, it is important and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Nesara Dissanayake , Asangi Jayatilaka , Mansooreh Zahedi , M. Ali Babar

As emerging software vulnerabilities continuously threaten enterprises and Internet services, there is a critical need for improved security research capabilities. This paper introduces the Security Exploit Telemetry Collection (SETC)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ryan Holeman , John Hastings , Varghese Mathew Vaidyan

Developers often build software on top of third-party libraries (Libs) to improve productivity, but these libraries may contain vulnerabilities that enable supply chain attacks. Existing tools detect vulnerable dependencies, yet developers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ying Zhang , Wenjia Song , Zhengjie Ji , Danfeng , Yao , Na Meng

Detecting semantically similar functions -- a crucial analysis capability with broad real-world security usages including vulnerability detection, malware lineage, and forensics -- requires understanding function behaviors and intentions.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Kexin Pei , Zhou Xuan , Junfeng Yang , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

We propose FPGA-Patch, the first-of-its-kind defense that leverages automated program repair concepts to thwart power side-channel attacks on cloud FPGAs. FPGA-Patch generates isofunctional variants of the target hardware by injecting…

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The integration of open-source third-party library dependencies in Java development introduces significant security risks when these libraries contain known vulnerabilities. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools struggle to…

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Open-source software (OSS) vulnerabilities are increasingly prevalent, emphasizing the importance of security patches. However, in widely used security platforms like NVD, a substantial number of CVE records still lack trace links to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Kaixuan Li , Jian Zhang , Sen Chen , Han Liu , Yang Liu , Yixiang Chen

Timely patching is paramount to safeguard users and maintainers against dire consequences of malicious attacks. In practice, patching is prioritized following the nature of the code change that is committed in the code repository. When such…

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In the open source software (OSS) ecosystem, there exists a complex software supply chain, where developers upstream and downstream widely borrow and reuse code. This results in the widespread occurrence of recurring defects, missing fixes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Fuwei Wang , Yongzhi Liu , Zhiqiang Dong

Existing dynamic vulnerability patching techniques are not well-suited for embedded devices, especially mission-critical ones such as medical equipment, as they have limited computational power and memory but uninterrupted service…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve strong performance on everyday coding tasks, but they can fail on complex tasks that require non-trivial reasoning about program semantics. Finding training examples to teach LLMs to solve these…

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In the life-cycle of software development, testing plays a crucial role in quality assurance. Proper testing not only increases code coverage and prevents regressions but it can also ensure that any potential vulnerabilities in the software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Gábor Antal , Dénes Bán , Martin Isztin , Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Hegedűs

A timely software update is vital to combat the increasing security vulnerabilities. However, some software vendors may secretly patch their vulnerabilities without creating CVE entries or even describing the security issue in their change…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in tasks like code translation, prompting interest in their potential for automating software vulnerability detection (SVD) and patching (SVP). To further research in this area, establishing a…

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