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Software vulnerabilities are major risks to software systems. Recently, researchers have proposed many deep learning approaches to detect software vulnerabilities. However, their accuracy is limited in practice. One of the main causes is…

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Software vulnerabilities continue to undermine the reliability and security of modern systems, particularly as software complexity outpaces the capabilities of traditional detection methods. This study introduces a genetic algorithm-based…

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In today's digital landscape, the importance of timely and accurate vulnerability detection has significantly increased. This paper presents a novel approach that leverages transformer-based models and machine learning techniques to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Daniele Cipollone , Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Simone Ferlin , Maliheh Izadi , Dejan Kostic , Marco Chiesa

The detection of software vulnerabilities (or vulnerabilities for short) is an important problem that has yet to be tackled, as manifested by the many vulnerabilities reported on a daily basis. This calls for machine learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Hai Jin , Yawei Zhu , Zhaoxuan Chen

In software, a vulnerability is a defect in a program that attackers might utilize to acquire unauthorized access, alter system functions, and acquire information. These vulnerabilities arise from programming faults, design flaws, incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Md. Fahim Sultan , Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Mohammad Wardat , Mst Shapna Akter

Java applications are prone to vulnerabilities stemming from the insecure use of security-sensitive APIs, such as file operations enabling path traversal or deserialization routines allowing remote code execution. These sink APIs encode…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fabian Fleischer , Cen Zhang , Joonun Jang , Jeongin Cho , Meng Xu , Taesoo Kim

Software vulnerability detection is critical in software security because it identifies potential bugs in software systems, enabling immediate remediation and mitigation measures to be implemented before they may be exploited. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Alvine Boaye Belle , Junjie Wang , Song Wang , Zhen Ming , Jiang , Nachiappan Nagappan

Automatically detecting software vulnerabilities is an important problem that has attracted much attention from the academic research community. However, existing vulnerability detectors still cannot achieve the vulnerability detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Zhaoxuan Chen , Yawei Zhu , Hai Jin

Attacks against computer systems exploiting software vulnerabilities can cause substantial damage to the cyber-infrastructure of our modern society and economy. To minimize the consequences, it is vital to detect and fix vulnerabilities as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Son Nguyen , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Kien-Tuan Ngo , Hieu Dinh Vo

Thousands of security vulnerabilities are discovered in production software each year, either reported publicly to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database or discovered internally in proprietary code. Vulnerabilities often…

The automatic detection of software vulnerabilities is an important research problem. However, existing solutions to this problem rely on human experts to define features and often miss many vulnerabilities (i.e., incurring high false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Xinyu Ou , Hai Jin , Sujuan Wang , Zhijun Deng , Yuyi Zhong

Software vulnerabilities are now reported at an unprecedented speed due to the recent development of automated vulnerability hunting tools. However, fixing vulnerabilities still mainly depends on programmers' manual efforts. Developers need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jianlei Chi , Yu Qu , Ting Liu , Qinghua Zheng , Heng Yin

Detecting software vulnerabilities is critical to ensuring the security and reliability of modern computer systems. Deep neural networks have shown promising results on vulnerability detection, but they lack the capability to capture global…

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Recent advances in automated vulnerability detection have achieved potential results in helping developers determine vulnerable components. However, after detecting vulnerabilities, investigating to fix vulnerable code is a non-trivial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hieu Dinh Vo , Son Nguyen

Software vulnerabilities are a major cyber threat and it is important to detect them. One important approach to detecting vulnerabilities is to use deep learning while treating a program function as a whole, known as function-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhen Li , Ning Wang , Deqing Zou , Yating Li , Ruqian Zhang , Shouhuai Xu , Chao Zhang , Hai Jin

Context: Static Application Security Testing Tools (SASTTs) identify software vulnerabilities to support the security and reliability of software applications. Interestingly, several studies have suggested that alternative solutions may be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Matteo Esposito , Valentina Falaschi , Davide Falessi

The rapid rise of cyber-crime activities and the growing number of devices threatened by them place software security issues in the spotlight. As around 90% of all attacks exploit known types of security issues, finding vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Hegedűs , Péter Gyimesi , Gábor Antal , Dénes Bán , Tibor Gyimóthy

Software applications, especially Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, are crucial to the day-to-day operations of many industries. Therefore, it is essential to maintain these systems effectively using tools that can identify,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Youcef Remil , Anes Bendimerad , Mathieu Chambard , Romain Mathonat , Marc Plantevit , Mehdi Kaytoue

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

Test resources are usually limited and therefore it is often not possible to completely test an application before a release. Therefore, testers need to focus their activities on the relevant code regions. In this paper, we introduce an…

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