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In the past couple of decades, significant research efforts are devoted to the prediction of software bugs. However, most existing work in this domain treats all bugs the same, which is not the case in practice. It is important for a defect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Ehsan Mashhadi , Hossein Ahmadvand , Hadi Hemmati

Software vulnerability detection is crucial for high-quality software development. Recently, some studies utilizing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn the graph representation of code in vulnerability detection tasks have achieved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xin Peng , Shangwen Wang , Yihao Qin , Bo Lin , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Vulnerability prediction is valuable in identifying security issues efficiently, even though it requires the source code of the target software system, which is a restrictive hypothesis. This paper presents an experimental study to predict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 D. Cotroneo , F. C. Grasso , R. Natella , V. Orbinato

Recent advancements in generative AI have led to the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering, addressing numerous long-standing challenges. However, a comprehensive study examining the capabilities of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ting Zhang , Chengran Yang , Yindu Su , Martin Weyssow , Hung Nguyen , Tan Bui , Hong Jin Kang , Yikun Li , Eng Lieh Ouh , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

Detecting vulnerabilities in source code is a critical task for software security assurance. Graph Neural Network (GNN) machine learning can be a promising approach by modeling source code as graphs. Early approaches treated code elements…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yu Luo , Weifeng Xu , Dianxiang Xu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in automated software security, particularly in vulnerability detection. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on isolated, single-vulnerability samples or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chinmay Pushkar , Sanchit Kabra , Dhruv Kumar , Jagat Sesh Challa

We explore the applicability of Graph Neural Networks in learning the nuances of source code from a security perspective. Specifically, whether signatures of vulnerabilities in source code can be learned from its graph representation, in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sahil Suneja , Yunhui Zheng , Yufan Zhuang , Jim Laredo , Alessandro Morari

Millions of repetitive code snippets are submitted to code repositories every day. To search from these large codebases using simple natural language queries would allow programmers to ideate, prototype, and develop easier and faster.…

This paper presents VulBERTa, a deep learning approach to detect security vulnerabilities in source code. Our approach pre-trains a RoBERTa model with a custom tokenisation pipeline on real-world code from open-source C/C++ projects. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hazim Hanif , Sergio Maffeis

This paper presents an evaluation of the code representation model Code2vec when trained on the task of detecting security vulnerabilities in C source code. We leverage the open-source library astminer to extract path-contexts from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-04 David Coimbra , Sofia Reis , Rui Abreu , Corina Păsăreanu , Hakan Erdogmus

Statistical language models are powerful tools which have been used for many tasks within natural language processing. Recently, they have been used for other sequential data such as source code.(Ray et al., 2015) showed that it is possible…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Jack Lanchantin , Ji Gao

Programming is a core skill in computer science and software engineering (SE), yet identifying and resolving code errors remains challenging for both novice and experienced developers. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Md Faizul Ibne Amin , Yutaka Watanobe , Md. Mostafizer Rahman , Daniel M. Muepu , Md. Shahajada Mia

The main stretch in the paper is buffer overflow anomaly occurring in major source codes, designed in various programming language. It describes the various as to how to improve your code and increase its strength to withstand security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Manas Gaur

The sources of reliable, code-level information about vulnerabilities that affect open-source software (OSS) are scarce, which hinders a broad adoption of advanced tools that provide code-level detection and assessment of vulnerable OSS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Therese Fehrer , Rocío Cabrera Lozoya , Antonino Sabetta , Dario Di Nucci , Damian A. Tamburri

Software vulnerabilities bear enterprises significant costs. Despite extensive efforts in research and development of software vulnerability detection methods, uncaught vulnerabilities continue to put software owners and users at risk. Many…

The increasing reliance on software in various applications has made the problem of software vulnerability detection more critical. Software vulnerabilities can lead to security breaches, data theft, and other negative outcomes. Traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saadh Jawwadh , Guhanathan Poravi

The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis, such as testing and vulnerability detection. Such a large number…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Tushar Sharma , Maria Kechagia , Stefanos Georgiou , Rohit Tiwari , Indira Vats , Hadi Moazen , Federica Sarro

When neural networks (NeuralNets) are implemented in hardware, their weights need to be stored in memory devices. As noise accumulates in the stored weights, the NeuralNet's performance will degrade. This paper studies how to use error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Kunping Huang , Paul Siegel , Anxiao , Jiang

Various studies among side-channel attacks have tried to extract information through leakages from electronic devices to reach the instruction flow of some appliances. However, previous methods highly depend on the resolution of traced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Pouya Narimani , Seyed Amin Habibi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

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