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Static and dynamic binary analysis techniques are actively used to reverse engineer software's behavior and to detect its vulnerabilities, even when only the binary code is available for analysis. To avoid analysis errors due to misreading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sami Kairajärvi , Andrei Costin , Timo Hämäläinen

Software is prone to security vulnerabilities. Program analysis tools to detect them have limited effectiveness in practice due to their reliance on human labeled specifications. Large language models (or LLMs) have shown impressive code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ziyang Li , Saikat Dutta , Mayur Naik

Source code is changed for a reason, e.g., to adapt, correct, or adapt it. This reason can provide valuable insight into the development process but is rarely explicitly documented when the change is committed to a source code repository.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Sebastian Hönel , Morgan Ericsson , Welf Löwe , Anna Wingkvist

Eliminating vulnerabilities from low-level code is vital for securing software. Static analysis is a promising approach for discovering vulnerabilities since it can provide developers early feedback on the code they write. But, it presents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Bhargava Shastry , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck , Jean-Pierre Seifert

Given a stream of graph edges from a dynamic graph, how can we assign anomaly scores to edges in an online manner, for the purpose of detecting unusual behavior, using constant time and memory? Existing approaches aim to detect individually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Siddharth Bhatia , Bryan Hooi , Minji Yoon , Kijung Shin , Christos Faloutsos

Data-driven research on the automated discovery and repair of security vulnerabilities in source code requires comprehensive datasets of real-life vulnerable code and their fixes. To assist in such research, we propose a method to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Guru Prasad Bhandari , Amara Naseer , Leon Moonen

Software vulnerabilities are a serious and crucial concern. Typically, in a program or function consisting of hundreds or thousands of source code statements, there are only a few statements causing the corresponding vulnerabilities. Most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Michael Fu , John Grundy , Hung Nguyen , Seyit Camtepe , Paul Quirk , Dinh Phung

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) has become pivotal in addressing vulnerabilities inherent in software project dependencies. In particular, reachability analysis is increasingly used in Open-Source Software (OSS) projects to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Lyuye Zhang , Jian Zhang , Kaixuan Li , Chong Wang , Chengwei Liu , Jiahui Wu , Sen Chen , Yaowen Zheng , Yang Liu

The rapid expansion of Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems has amplified security challenges, as heterogeneous devices and dynamic traffic patterns increase exposure to sophisticated and previously unseen cyberattacks. Traditional intrusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Wei Lian , Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares

For reverse engineering related security domains, such as vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and binary hardening, disassembly is crucial yet challenging. The fundamental challenge of disassembly is to identify instruction and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Peicheng Wang , Monika Santra , Mingyu Liu , Cong Sun , Dongrui Zeng , Gang Tan

Despite the success of multimodal learning in cross-modal retrieval task, the remarkable progress relies on the correct correspondence among multimedia data. However, collecting such ideal data is expensive and time-consuming. In practice,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Haochen Han , Kaiyao Miao , Qinghua Zheng , Minnan Luo

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

This paper presents a framework that selectively triggers security reviews for incoming source code changes. Functioning as a review bot within a code review service, the framework can automatically request additional security reviews at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Keun Soo Yim

This work studies constrained blackbox optimization problems that cannot be solved in reasonable time due to prohibitive computational costs. This challenge is especially prevalent in industrial applications, where blackbox evaluations are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-20 Stéphane Alarie , Charles Audet , Miguel Diago , Sébastien Le Digabel , Xavier Lebeuf

We present a comprehensive dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits (VFCs) to advance research in Java vulnerability analysis. Our dataset, derived from thousands of open-source Java projects on GitHub, comprises two variants: JavaVFC…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Tan Bui , Yan Naing Tun , Yiran Cheng , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ting Zhang , Hong Jin Kang

In the case of upgrading smart contracts on blockchain systems, it is essential to consider the continuity of upgrades and subsequent maintenance. In practice, upgrade operations often introduce new vulnerabilities. Existing static analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xiaoqi Li , Lei Xie , Wenkai Li , Zongwei Li

Data-driven software engineering processes, such as vulnerability prediction heavily rely on the quality of the data used. In this paper, we observe that it is infeasible to obtain a noise-free security defect dataset in practice. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Roland Croft , M. Ali Babar , Huaming Chen

Signature-based Intrusion Detection System (SIDS) provides a promising solution to the problem of web application security. However, the performance of the system highly relies on the quality of the signatures designed to detect attacks. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Nancy Agarwal , Syed Zeeshan Hussain

Version control relies on commit messages to convey the rationale for code changes, but these messages are often low quality and, more critically, inconsistent with their diffs-known as message-code inconsistency (MCI). MCIs mislead…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Qingyu Zhang , Puzhuo Liu , Peng Di , Chenxiong Qian