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Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key challenges remain. First, LLM-generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Qingxiao Xu , Kewen Zhu , Jeff Huang

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities is a fundamental problem in software security. Existing program analysis techniques either suffer from high false positives or false negatives. Recent progress in Deep Learning (DL) has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Saikat Chakraborty , Rahul Krishna , Yangruibo Ding , Baishakhi Ray

The significant increase in software production driven by automation and faster development lifecycles has resulted in a corresponding surge in software vulnerabilities. In parallel, the evolving landscape of software vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yuejun Guo , Constantinos Patsakis , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Fran Casino

In software development, the predominant emphasis on functionality often supersedes security concerns, a trend gaining momentum with AI-driven automation tools like GitHub Copilot. These tools significantly improve developers' efficiency in…

Many applications have security vulnerabilities that can be exploited. It is practically impossible to find all of them due to the NP-complete nature of the testing problem. Security solutions provide defenses against these attacks through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Fady Copty , Andre Kassis , Sharon Keidar-Barner , Dov Murik

Two key contributions presented in this paper are: i) A method for building a dataset containing source code features extracted from source files taken from Open Source Software (OSS) and associated bug reports, ii) A predictive model for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Ritu Kapur , Balwinder Sodhi

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized industries, enabling unprecedented connectivity and functionality. However, this expansion also increases vulnerabilities, exposing IoT networks to increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Md Ahnaf Akif , Ismail Butun , Andre Williams , Imadeldin Mahgoub

Software vulnerabilities are flaws in computer software systems that pose significant threats to the integrity, security, and reliability of modern software and its application data. These vulnerabilities can lead to substantial economic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Penghui Liu , Yingzhou Bi , Jiangtao Huang , Xinxin Jiang , Lianmei Wang

Modern networked systems rely on complex software stacks, which often conceal vulnerabilities arising from intricate interdependencies. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is effective for identifying dependencies and mitigating security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vadim Safronov , Ionut Bostan , Nicholas Allott , Andrew Martin

This work addresses classification of unknown binaries executed in sandbox by modeling their interaction with system resources (files, mutexes, registry keys and communication with servers over the network) and error messages provided by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Jan Stiborek , Tomáš Pevný , Martin Rehák

Software vulnerability management has become increasingly critical as modern systems scale in size and complexity. However, existing automated approaches remain insufficient. Traditional static analysis methods struggle to precisely capture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zelong Zheng , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Yi Gao , Shengyi Pan

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

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

Developers often spend much effort and resources to debug a program. To help the developers debug, numerous information retrieval (IR)-based and spectrum-based bug localization techniques have been devised. IR-based techniques process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Thong Hoang , Richard J. Oentaryo , Tien-Duy B. Le , David Lo

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development. Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

In recent years, the rise of machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity has brought new challenges, including the increasing threat of backdoor poisoning attacks on ML malware classifiers. For instance, adversaries could inject malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dung Thuy Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Taylor T. Johnson , Kevin Leach

In this paper, we present the first comprehensive empirical study of specialized LLM-based detectors and compare them with traditional static analyzers at the project scale. Specifically, our study evaluates five latest and representative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Fengjie Li , Jiajun Jiang , Dongchi Chen , Yingfei Xiong

Recently, deep learning techniques have garnered substantial attention for their ability to identify vulnerable code patterns accurately. However, current state-of-the-art deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Marwan Omar

As software becomes increasingly complex and prone to vulnerabilities, automated vulnerability detection is critically important, yet challenging. Given the significant successes of large language models (LLMs) in various tasks, there is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Zeyu Gao , Hao Wang , Yuchen Zhou , Wenyu Zhu , Chao Zhang

Each year, thousands of software vulnerabilities are discovered and reported to the public. Unpatched known vulnerabilities are a significant security risk. It is imperative that software vendors quickly provide patches once vulnerabilities…

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