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How to apply automated verification technology such as model checking and static program analysis to millions of lines of embedded C/C++ code? How to package this technology in a way that it can be used by software developers and engineers,…

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Open-source software vulnerability patch detection is a critical component for maintaining software security and ensuring software supply chain integrity. Traditional manual detection methods face significant scalability challenges when…

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Version control system tools empower developers to independently work on their development tasks. These tools also facilitate the integration of changes through merging operations, and report textual conflicts. However, when developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Galileu Santos de Jesus , Paulo Borba , Rodrigo Bonifácio , Matheus Barbosa de Oliveira

Autonomous vehicles (AV) depend on the sensors like RADAR and camera for the perception of the environment, path planning, and control. With the increasing autonomy and interactions with the complex environment, there have been growing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat , Yongming Qin , Homa Alemzadeh

A system vulnerability analysis technique (SVAT) for complex mission critical systems (CMCS) was developed in response to the need to be able to conduct penetration testing on large industrial systems which cannot be taken offline or risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Matthew Tassava , Cameron Kolodjski , Jeremy Straub

We propose a symbolic execution method for programs that can draw random samples. In contrast to existing work, our method can verify randomized programs with unknown inputs and can prove probabilistic properties that universally quantify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zachary Susag , Sumit Lahiri , Justin Hsu , Subhajit Roy

Recent studies have revealed that self-sustaining cascading failures in distributed systems frequently lead to widespread outages, which are challenging to contain and recover from. Existing failure detection techniques struggle to expose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shangshu Qian , Lin Tan , Yongle Zhang

Microcontroller-based embedded systems are vital in daily life, but are especially vulnerable to control-flow hijacking attacks due to hardware and software constraints. Control-Flow Attestation (CFA) aims to precisely attest the execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Md Armanuzzaman , Engin Kirda , Ziming Zhao

Remote run-time attestation methods, including Control Flow Attestation (CFA) and Data Flow Attestation (DFA), have been proposed to generate precise evidence of execution's control flow path (in CFA) and optionally execution data inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Adam Caulfield , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Diagnosability is a system theoretical property characterizing whether fault occurrences in a system can always be detected within a finite time. In this paper, we investigate the verification of diagnosability for cyber-physical systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Bingzhuo Zhong , Weijie Dong , Xiang Yin , Majid Zamani

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Ming Zhou , Xupu Hu , Zhihao Wang , Haining Wang , Hui Wen , Limin Sun , Peng Zhang

Multiple prompt injection attacks have been proposed against web agents. At the same time, various methods have been developed to detect general prompt injection attacks, but none have been systematically evaluated for web agents. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Yinuo Liu , Ruohan Xu , Xilong Wang , Yuqi Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

A desirable property of control systems is to be robust to inputs, that is small perturbations of the inputs of a system will cause only small perturbations on its outputs. But it is not clear whether this property is maintained at the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Eric Goubault , Sylvie Putot

During software development, vulnerabilities have posed a significant threat to users. Patches are the most effective way to combat vulnerabilities. In a large-scale software system, testing the presence of a security patch in every…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Qi Zhan , Xing Hu , Zhiyang Li , Xin Xia , David Lo , Shanping Li

As High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems strive towards the exascale goal, failure rates both at the hardware and software levels will increase significantly. Thus, detecting and classifying faults in HPC systems as they occur and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Alessio Netti , Zeynep Kiziltan , Ozalp Babaoglu , Alina Sirbu , Andrea Bartolini , Andrea Borghesi

With the development of blockchain technology, the detection of smart contract vulnerabilities is increasingly emphasized. However, when detecting vulnerabilities in inter-contract interactions (i.e., cross-contract vulnerabilities) using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Xiao Chen

We present SymNet, a network static analysis tool based on symbolic execution. SymNet quickly analyzes networks by injecting symbolic packets and tracing their path through the network. Our key novelty is SEFL, a language we designed for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Radu Stoenescu , Matei Popovici , Lorina Negreanu , Costin Raiciu

As fault-tolerant quantum computers scale, certifying the accuracy of computations performed with encoded logical qubits will soon become classically intractable. This creates a critical need for scalable, device-independent certification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 James Mills , Adithya Sireesh , Dominik Leichtle , Joschka Roffe , Elham Kashefi

Designing a static analysis is generally a substantial undertaking, requiring significant expertise in both program analysis and the domain of the program analysis, and significant development resources. As a result, most program analyses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Colin S. Gordon

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are critical components of modern secure computing, providing isolated zones in processors to safeguard sensitive data and execute secure operations. Despite their importance, TEEs are increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Aaron Joy , Ben Soh , Zhi Zhang , Sri Parameswaran , Darshana Jayasinghe